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 Czech Republic and from Woodstock.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Shuggie Otis to the jazz 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 Fort Wilson Riot. All the underground hits.
All The Smiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Prunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shoche,
Charles Mingus,
Soft Machine,
Big Daddy Kane,
Little Man,
Urselle,
Derrick Morgan,
Agent Orange,
Tears for Fears,
Isaac Hayes,
Model 500,
Public Image Ltd.,
Swell Maps,
Pagans,
Andrew Hill,
The Evens,
Delta 5,
Ten City,
Symarip,
Kerrie Biddell,
Tommy Roe,
Anthony Braxton,
The Standells,
Eden Ahbez,
Prince Buster,
Josef K,
Warren Ellis,
Scientists,
CMW,
Khruangbin,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Stiv Bators,
Jerry's Kids,
Boredoms,
David Axelrod,
Roxy Music,
Slick Rick,
Main Source,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sister Nancy,
Eli Mardock,
Royal Trux,
Rapeman,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Ralphi Rosario,
Aaron Thompson,
Archie Shepp,
Swans,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Marine Girls,
Cybotron,
Lakeside,
Gang of Four,
Pulsallama,
The Invisible,
La Düsseldorf,
Young Marble Giants,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Angels of Light,
Rufus Thomas,
The Associates,
Negative Approach,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.