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 Cambodia and from Manchester.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 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 The Beau Brummels to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Al Stewart. All the underground hits.
All Jandek tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minny Pops 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ossler,
Patti Smith,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Zapp,
Organ,
Roxy Music,
Kas Product,
Franke,
Avey Tare,
Graham Central Station,
Bad Manners,
Rakim,
Main Source,
Scratch Acid,
The Angels of Light,
This Heat,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sun City Girls,
The Star Department,
Gang of Four,
48th St. Collective,
Carl Craig,
Todd Rundgren,
The Music Machine,
MC5,
Youth Brigade,
Letta Mbulu,
The Martian,
Marc Almond,
Siglo XX,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Jerry's Kids,
Maleditus Sound,
Pole,
Stockholm Monsters,
Soulsonic Force,
The Pretty Things,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Skarface,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Popol Vuh,
John Holt,
Model 500,
Max Romeo,
Barclay James Harvest,
Jeff Mills,
The Techniques,
The Gap Band,
The Red Krayola,
The Vogues,
Motorama,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Eric Copeland,
K-Klass,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Trojans,
Shoche,
the Bar-Kays,
Barbara Tucker,
Rapeman, Rapeman, Rapeman, Rapeman.
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.