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 Serbia and from Mexico City.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Joensuu 1685 to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Yazoo. All the underground hits.
All Skaos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tropical Tobacco record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ohio Players,
Eden Ahbez,
Tim Buckley,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sex Pistols,
June of 44,
Grey Daturas,
Outsiders,
Tubeway Army,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Boogie Down Productions,
Pharoah Sanders,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sound Behaviour,
Subhumans,
Davy DMX,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Bobby Sherman,
Fugazi,
Charles Mingus,
Alison Limerick,
Curtis Mayfield,
Silicon Teens,
Henry Cow,
Matthew Halsall,
Lucky Dragons,
X-102,
Yusef Lateef,
Livin' Joy,
AZ,
Cal Tjader,
Can,
Y Pants,
Fluxion,
Hot Snakes,
New York Dolls,
Zapp,
PIL,
Arcadia,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Vladislav Delay,
the Human League,
Los Fastidios,
Junior Murvin,
Flash Fearless,
Cymande,
UT,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Main Source,
The Names,
John Coltrane,
Black Bananas,
Glambeats Corp.,
Soul Sonic Force,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Fortunes, The Fortunes, The Fortunes, The Fortunes.
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.