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 Antigua and from Shanghai.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Woodstock.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Crime to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Osbourne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Suburban Knight record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q65 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pierre Henry,
Jandek,
Jimmy McGriff,
Lyres,
The Electric Prunes,
DJ Style,
Schoolly D,
Hasil Adkins,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ken Boothe,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Excepter,
The Invisible,
John Foxx,
kango's stein massive,
The Angels of Light,
Todd Rundgren,
48th St. Collective,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Yaz,
Iggy Pop,
The Seeds,
Don Cherry,
Kas Product,
Amon Düül II,
Popol Vuh,
Pagans,
Los Fastidios,
KRS-One,
OOIOO,
Mo-Dettes,
Wire,
Minnie Riperton,
The United States of America,
Lou Christie,
Babytalk,
The Star Department,
Boz Scaggs,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Cameo,
The Velvet Underground,
June Days,
The Zeros,
Yusef Lateef,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Roxette,
Surgeon,
Donald Byrd,
New York Dolls,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Moody Blues,
Scan 7,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Moleskins,
MC5,
Barbara Tucker,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Sonics,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad.
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.