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 Russia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 mellotron 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 Kerri Chandler to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Schoolly D. All the underground hits.
All Michelle Simonal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anthony Braxton record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ice-T record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echospace,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Loose Ends,
Parry Music,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Gap Band,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Standells,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Spoonie Gee,
Cheater Slicks,
Alice Coltrane,
the Association,
Scion,
Deakin,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Patti Smith,
The Residents,
Henry Cow,
EPMD,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Hashim,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Pretty Things,
Black Sheep,
Warren Ellis,
Aaron Thompson,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Model 500,
Erykah Badu,
Jandek,
Absolute Body Control,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ultra Naté,
U.S. Maple,
Sixth Finger,
The American Breed,
Altered Images,
This Heat,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sugar Minott,
Harry Pussy,
The Evens,
Max Romeo,
Lalo Schifrin,
Ossler,
John Lydon,
Half Japanese,
Darondo,
Zero Boys,
Goldenarms,
The Monochrome Set,
Roxy Music,
Carl Craig,
Grey Daturas,
The Smiths,
Jimmy McGriff,
Brick,
A Certain Ratio,
Joyce Sims,
The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers.
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.