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 Rwanda and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 UT to the dance 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 Minor Threat. All the underground hits.
All Joe Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 10cc 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blackbyrds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
8 Eyed Spy,
Ash Ra Tempel,
John Lydon,
Faraquet,
Rotary Connection,
Junior Murvin,
Yazoo,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Black Bananas,
The Fugs,
The Slits,
Smog,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Duran Duran,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Warsaw,
Alphaville,
CMW,
Suicide,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Easy Going,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Echospace,
Rapeman,
Cheater Slicks,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Swell Maps,
The Angels of Light,
Kevin Saunderson,
the Bar-Kays,
The Divine Comedy,
The Associates,
L. Decosne,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Susan Cadogan,
the Human League,
The Human League,
The Monochrome Set,
The Grass Roots,
The Music Machine,
Scion,
The Techniques,
The Buckinghams,
Donald Byrd,
Glenn Branca,
E-Dancer,
Ohio Players,
Erykah Badu,
The Standells,
Television,
Ossler,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
DJ Style,
Robert Hood,
Cameo,
Cymande,
The Stooges,
Babytalk,
Moss Icon,
The Dave Clark Five,
Grauzone,
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.