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 Guatemala and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Spokane.
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 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 Ludus to the electroclash 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 Y Pants. All the underground hits.
All Agent Orange tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bob Dylan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Erasure,
Bobby Womack,
Soft Cell,
Quando Quango,
The Invisible,
Derrick May,
Charles Mingus,
Neil Young,
Bizarre Inc.,
Pierre Henry,
The Residents,
Tom Boy,
Gabor Szabo,
Donald Byrd,
The Alarm Clocks,
Leonard Cohen,
D'Angelo,
Altered Images,
Second Layer,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bootsy Collins,
Lebanon Hanover,
Crispy Ambulance,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Grass Roots,
Amazonics,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Alison Limerick,
Deakin,
Lakeside,
Junior Murvin,
Joe Smooth,
The Blues Magoos,
FM Einheit,
Roxette,
The Fugs,
Ten City,
The Stooges,
Mars,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Funky Four + One,
Ultimate Spinach,
Cal Tjader,
Newcleus,
OOIOO,
Dennis Brown,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Isaac Hayes,
Cheater Slicks,
Guru Guru,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Roy Ayers,
Angry Samoans,
Kerrie Biddell,
Colin Newman,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Tim Buckley,
Maleditus Sound,
The Fall,
Rotary Connection,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish.
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.