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 Canada and from Copenhagen.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Ten City to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All Kenny Larkin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mojo Men record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mummies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MDC,
Carl Craig,
The Gladiators,
Tim Buckley,
Funky Four + One,
Moss Icon,
Subhumans,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Livin' Joy,
Cecil Taylor,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Anthony Braxton,
Desert Stars,
Ituana,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Roxy Music,
A Certain Ratio,
The Index,
DNA,
Altered Images,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Trumans Water,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Moody Blues,
Eden Ahbez,
Michelle Simonal,
Sun City Girls,
Deadbeat,
CMW,
Nick Fraelich,
Toni Rubio,
Jimmy McGriff,
Hashim,
Joe Smooth,
Tropical Tobacco,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Skatalites,
Anakelly,
Girls At Our Best!,
Fear,
Quadrant,
Funkadelic,
Jandek,
The Monks,
48th St. Collective,
Yusef Lateef,
Mr. Review,
The Trojans,
Spoonie Gee,
Jacob Miller,
Vladislav Delay,
a-ha,
LL Cool J,
Fat Boys,
The Walker Brothers,
Roger Hodgson,
T. Rex,
Judy Mowatt,
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear.
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.