Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Cuba and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing The New Christs to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Rod Modell. All the underground hits.
All Khruangbin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dark Day record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Buzzcocks,
Khruangbin,
Sound Behaviour,
One Last Wish,
Iggy Pop,
Darondo,
Boredoms,
Steve Hackett,
a-ha,
The Raincoats,
Traffic Nightmare,
Tubeway Army,
Youth Brigade,
Technova,
Con Funk Shun,
Sun City Girls,
JFA,
Massinfluence,
Trumans Water,
The Move,
Cal Tjader,
Grey Daturas,
Vainqueur,
Flash Fearless,
Funkadelic,
Zapp,
The Red Krayola,
Alphaville,
The Zeros,
Von Mondo,
Leonard Cohen,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Invisible,
Eddi Front,
The Names,
Nick Fraelich,
Pylon,
The Misunderstood,
Marvin Gaye,
Simply Red,
Tommy Roe,
Hoover,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Todd Rundgren,
John Lydon,
Theoretical Girls,
Spoonie Gee,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Shuggie Otis,
The Gap Band,
Fad Gadget,
Q and Not U,
Newcleus,
Harry Pussy,
10cc,
The Knickerbockers,
The Wake,
Throbbing Gristle,
The J.B.'s,
Morten Harket,
Alton Ellis,
L. Decosne,
Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.