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 Mexico and from Columbus.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Jandek to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Kinks. All the underground hits.
All Sound Behaviour tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gichy Dan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New York Dolls,
Althea and Donna,
The Five Americans,
The Gun Club,
Harry Pussy,
The Fugs,
Curtis Mayfield,
Skarface,
Lou Reed,
The Gap Band,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Kinks,
Ronan,
The Cosmic Jokers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Barbara Tucker,
Absolute Body Control,
Echospace,
The Happenings,
8 Eyed Spy,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Wally Richardson,
Rakim,
Blossom Toes,
Drive Like Jehu,
David McCallum,
Isaac Hayes,
Judy Mowatt,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Eurythmics,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Walker Brothers,
Peter and Kerry,
Sällskapet,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Searchers,
Agitation Free,
Black Moon,
Boz Scaggs,
Gong,
Moby Grape,
Porter Ricks,
Nas,
Motorama,
Grauzone,
Ice-T,
The Invisible,
Spoonie Gee,
Lakeside,
Howard Jones,
Laurel Aitken,
Clear Light,
The Leaves,
World's Most,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Nirvana,
Infiniti,
Chris & Cosey,
Bauhaus,
Joe Finger,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Mummies,
Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers.
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.