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 Vanuatu and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Aloha Tigers to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Nico. All the underground hits.
All Kurtis Blow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Livin' Joy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heavy D & The Boyz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Joe & The Fish,
Franke,
Roxette,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Groovy Waters,
Minnie Riperton,
Derrick May,
Alice Coltrane,
Donny Hathaway,
Kas Product,
Unrelated Segments,
The Evens,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Vogues,
Surgeon,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sandy B,
Country Teasers,
The Skatalites,
Nick Fraelich,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Tres Demented,
Judy Mowatt,
Graham Central Station,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Glenn Branca,
Monks,
Skriet,
Minny Pops,
Lungfish,
The Raincoats,
Sällskapet,
Toni Rubio,
Grauzone,
a-ha,
UT,
Skaos,
Hasil Adkins,
The Cowsills,
The Associates,
The Star Department,
Jandek,
Oneida,
Interpol,
Lightning Bolt,
Pierre Henry,
Lower 48,
Scott Walker,
Siglo XX,
Thee Headcoats,
Ludus,
Visage,
Chris & Cosey,
The Selecter,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Scan 7,
Alison Limerick,
Drexciya,
Black Flag,
Youth Brigade,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Los Fastidios,
Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty.
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.