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 Mongolia and from Tokyo.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 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 The Slackers to the punk 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 Wake. All the underground hits.
All Shoche tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Music Machine 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?
Funkadelic,
The Sound,
The Electric Prunes,
Kurtis Blow,
Lalann,
Radiohead,
The Modern Lovers,
Gil Scott Heron,
June Days,
The Vogues,
Chrome,
The Standells,
EPMD,
Essential Logic,
The Motions,
Goldenarms,
Jawbox,
Bootsy Collins,
The Cowsills,
The Doobie Brothers,
Toni Rubio,
Barclay James Harvest,
Kerri Chandler,
Jacques Brel,
The Real Kids,
Juan Atkins,
Slave,
Arthur Verocai,
Kas Product,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ken Boothe,
Sixth Finger,
The Seeds,
Carl Craig,
Dead Boys,
Sunsets and Hearts,
John Foxx,
Archie Shepp,
the Swans,
Rotary Connection,
Zapp,
Jeff Lynne,
Monks,
The Skatalites,
Flash Fearless,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Steve Hackett,
Junior Murvin,
The Happenings,
The Gories,
Lakeside,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Depeche Mode,
Aaron Thompson,
Au Pairs,
The Cure,
The Five Americans,
Crooked Eye,
Roxy Music,
It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day.
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.