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 Hungary and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Martian to the jazz 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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All Reuben Wilson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Justin Hinds & The Dominoes 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tubeway Army record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Metal Thangz,
Swell Maps,
Mars,
Scion,
Pussy Galore,
Nick Fraelich,
Half Japanese,
Sun Ra,
Jesper Dahlback,
Gregory Isaacs,
Arab on Radar,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Desert Stars,
The Sonics,
Joy Division,
Johnny Clarke,
Vladislav Delay,
Moss Icon,
T.S.O.L.,
The Index,
Ice-T,
Donny Hathaway,
Heaven 17,
Aloha Tigers,
The Red Krayola,
Magma,
The Motions,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Pantytec,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Agitation Free,
The Leaves,
Average White Band,
Talk Talk,
Jawbox,
John Cale,
Tommy Roe,
Harmonia,
The Mojo Men,
Fela Kuti,
Lyres,
Arcadia,
Pere Ubu,
MC5,
Tubeway Army,
The American Breed,
Bronski Beat,
The Golliwogs,
ABC,
June of 44,
Gang Gang Dance,
Bad Manners,
Maurizio,
Josef K,
Unrelated Segments,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Doors,
Severed Heads,
Kaleidoscope,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Adolescents,
Warsaw,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.