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 Libya and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Rekid to the rock 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 Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All Dead Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erasure record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 a marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cybotron,
Lower 48,
Gerry Rafferty,
In Retrospect,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Mummies,
Swell Maps,
Dark Day,
Negative Approach,
Rosa Yemen,
Blancmange,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Stetsasonic,
Davy DMX,
Glenn Branca,
Ornette Coleman,
Young Marble Giants,
Yusef Lateef,
Easy Going,
Pulsallama,
T. Rex,
The Tremeloes,
Heaven 17,
Arcadia,
The Skatalites,
Bizarre Inc.,
Monks,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Dirtbombs,
The Saints,
Susan Cadogan,
The Pretty Things,
JFA,
Eli Mardock,
Crash Course in Science,
The Motions,
Tommy Roe,
Alton Ellis,
E-Dancer,
Godley & Creme,
The Last Poets,
Big Daddy Kane,
Dual Sessions,
The Residents,
Lou Reed,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Amazonics,
the Germs,
Kaleidoscope,
Donny Hathaway,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Guru Guru,
Ten City,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Gang Starr,
The Stooges,
Neil Young,
Brothers Johnson,
The Searchers,
Mr. Review,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.