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 Zimbabwe and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Yaz to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Gang Green. All the underground hits.
All The Residents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Invisible record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minor Threat,
The Doobie Brothers,
Danielle Patucci,
Tommy Roe,
Ten City,
Jeru the Damaja,
Erasure,
Dead Boys,
Sunsets and Hearts,
John Foxx,
The Toasters,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Alarm Clocks,
Eric B and Rakim,
Panda Bear,
Anthony Braxton,
Mantronix,
Rotary Connection,
Ultra Naté,
Johnny Clarke,
Unwound,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sonny Sharrock,
The J.B.'s,
Harry Pussy,
Flash Fearless,
Jacques Brel,
Fear,
The Litter,
Groovy Waters,
Khruangbin,
Lalann,
The Saints,
Ronan,
David Axelrod,
Barrington Levy,
The Searchers,
Reuben Wilson,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sonic Youth,
The Red Krayola,
Rosa Yemen,
Swans,
Eli Mardock,
The Slits,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Soul II Soul,
Minutemen,
Yazoo,
Davy DMX,
Essential Logic,
Suicide,
Amon Düül,
Outsiders,
Icehouse,
Marine Girls,
Radio Birdman,
Arab on Radar,
Nick Fraelich,
Josef K,
Mars,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.