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 Iceland and from Mumbai.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the sitar 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 Lalann to the jazz 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 The Velvet Underground. All the underground hits.
All Kaleidoscope tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gladiators record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Darondo,
New Order,
Sight & Sound,
Laurel Aitken,
New Age Steppers,
Peter & Gordon,
Royal Trux,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Invisible,
Steve Hackett,
James White and The Blacks,
Donald Byrd,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Human League,
Pantytec,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Arcadia,
Neu!,
The Pretty Things,
Newcleus,
The Evens,
The Fire Engines,
One Last Wish,
The Monks,
Dennis Brown,
Simply Red,
The J.B.'s,
KRS-One,
Babytalk,
Deadbeat,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Martian,
The Last Poets,
E-Dancer,
Nick Fraelich,
Robert Görl,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Cheater Slicks,
Chris & Cosey,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Warren Ellis,
Boogie Down Productions,
Kool Moe Dee,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Cramps,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Pole,
Deakin,
The Young Rascals,
Joyce Sims,
kango's stein massive,
Bluetip,
Brick,
Jeff Lynne,
Alton Ellis,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Detroit Cobras,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Technova,
Desert Stars, Desert Stars, Desert Stars, Desert Stars.
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.