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 Uganda and from Madrid.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 synthesizer 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 Quadrant 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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Ultramagnetic MC's tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fear record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liliput,
Bluetip,
Gang of Four,
Iggy Pop,
The Angels of Light,
David Bowie,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Infiniti,
Section 25,
Kool Moe Dee,
Fatback Band,
X-Ray Spex,
JFA,
the Soft Cell,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Laurel Aitken,
The Mummies,
Kurtis Blow,
Alton Ellis,
T. Rex,
Heaven 17,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Public Enemy,
Lungfish,
Unrelated Segments,
Absolute Body Control,
Ludus,
The Flesh Eaters,
Agent Orange,
Young Marble Giants,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
the Association,
The Kinks,
Fela Kuti,
Mad Mike,
Sandy B,
Newcleus,
Gerry Rafferty,
Swell Maps,
Inner City,
Eddi Front,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Steve Hackett,
Ralphi Rosario,
Mo-Dettes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Desert Stars,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Camberwell Now,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Archie Shepp,
Stereo Dub,
Chris Corsano,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
X-101,
Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna.
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.