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 Grenada 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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the sitar 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 T. Rex 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 E-Dancer. All the underground hits.
All T. Rex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Little Man,
The Young Rascals,
The Modern Lovers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Blake Baxter,
The Detroit Cobras,
Camouflage,
Piero Umiliani,
Judy Mowatt,
Shoche,
Moebius,
The Fall,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Fugazi,
Loose Ends,
Gerry Rafferty,
Jandek,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Wire,
Tommy Roe,
Fatback Band,
The Pretty Things,
The Fuzztones,
Soul II Soul,
Swell Maps,
The Trojans,
The Dave Clark Five,
Todd Rundgren,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Model 500,
Unrelated Segments,
Junior Murvin,
Japan,
Ponytail,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Brick,
Davy DMX,
Pantaleimon,
Marvin Gaye,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Count Five,
Byron Stingily,
Whodini,
Toni Rubio,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Fortunes,
Cluster,
Pylon,
FM Einheit,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Dead C,
Anakelly,
Sam Rivers,
Sun Ra,
Sixth Finger,
Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman.
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.