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 France and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Fugs. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Leaves record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Junior Murvin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
Mission of Burma,
Pet Shop Boys,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
X-102,
Chrome,
Alphaville,
New Age Steppers,
Scientists,
The Trojans,
Flipper,
Robert Görl,
Gichy Dan,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Adolescents,
Ultravox,
Stockholm Monsters,
Q65,
Boz Scaggs,
Peter and Kerry,
Can,
Chris Corsano,
The Skatalites,
Roger Hodgson,
Lou Reed,
Echospace,
Anakelly,
Bang On A Can,
R.M.O.,
Mr. Review,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ohio Players,
OOIOO,
Darondo,
Circle Jerks,
Lalo Schifrin,
Pantytec,
Frankie Knuckles,
Q and Not U,
Royal Trux,
Yaz,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Johnny Osbourne,
Graham Central Station,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Gap Band,
Zapp,
Scion,
Goldenarms,
DJ Style,
Scott Walker,
Delon & Dalcan,
Kool Moe Dee,
10cc,
Porter Ricks,
Flash Fearless,
Pharoah Sanders,
Erykah Badu,
The Sonics,
Lucky Dragons,
The Angels of Light,
Bill Wells,
Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock.
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.