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 Slovakia and from Glasgow.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 organ 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 Rotary Connection to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Modern Lovers. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Dolphy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
the Association,
Peter & Gordon,
Qualms,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Smoke,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Martian,
Flash Fearless,
MDC,
Swans,
Oneida,
Nas,
The Vogues,
The Moody Blues,
Pole,
PIL,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Red Krayola,
John Coltrane,
The Monochrome Set,
Smog,
Delon & Dalcan,
Letta Mbulu,
Radiopuhelimet,
Shoche,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Funky Four + One,
Joe Smooth,
Guru Guru,
Hasil Adkins,
Silicon Teens,
Fear,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sonny Sharrock,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Porter Ricks,
The Barracudas,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Litter,
Neu!,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Ultra Naté,
The Mummies,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Dawn Penn,
The Flesh Eaters,
Reuben Wilson,
The Grass Roots,
Max Romeo,
Harry Pussy,
Essential Logic,
Youth Brigade,
Nation of Ulysses,
Brass Construction,
Cluster,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Five Americans,
Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale.
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.