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 Uruguay and from Madrid.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 spring reverb 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 The Happenings to the grime 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse. All the underground hits.
All Magma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Martian 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reuben Wilson,
Bobby Byrd,
Wings,
Radio Birdman,
Panda Bear,
Can,
Supertramp,
Schoolly D,
Tim Buckley,
the Human League,
The Martian,
Idris Muhammad,
One Last Wish,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Stooges,
Donald Byrd,
ABC,
Mission of Burma,
R.M.O.,
Youth Brigade,
Essential Logic,
Moebius,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Hasil Adkins,
Dark Day,
Terry Callier,
The Five Americans,
Graham Central Station,
The Slits,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Animal Collective,
Radiohead,
The Knickerbockers,
Average White Band,
Fad Gadget,
Lyres,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sixth Finger,
Television Personalities,
The Grass Roots,
Peter and Kerry,
Pole,
Boz Scaggs,
Morten Harket,
Unwound,
The Detroit Cobras,
Althea and Donna,
Archie Shepp,
The Young Rascals,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Remains,
Ultra Naté,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Divine Comedy,
Ronan,
Quantec,
Davy DMX,
The Raincoats,
Deadbeat,
Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood.
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.