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 Ecuador and from London.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Doors to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Animal Collective. All the underground hits.
All Bizarre Inc. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Names record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Dolphy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cal Tjader,
Anakelly,
Symarip,
Gang of Four,
The Standells,
Sun City Girls,
The Vogues,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bobby Womack,
T. Rex,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Durutti Column,
Albert Ayler,
Mission of Burma,
The Fortunes,
Theoretical Girls,
The Birthday Party,
Rotary Connection,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Derrick Morgan,
Panda Bear,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Moebius,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Nik Kershaw,
Gang Gang Dance,
John Cale,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Basic Channel,
Television Personalities,
Hashim,
Duran Duran,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Arthur Verocai,
Ice-T,
Al Stewart,
Newcleus,
Soft Cell,
Kas Product,
Young Marble Giants,
Pere Ubu,
The Stooges,
Minutemen,
Goldenarms,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Leaves,
OOIOO,
The Names,
The Fugs,
The Knickerbockers,
Bizarre Inc.,
Brass Construction,
Fugazi,
Technova,
Con Funk Shun,
Cymande,
Glambeats Corp.,
Bootsy Collins,
Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs.
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.