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 Madagascar and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 güiro 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 Bobby Sherman 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 Crooked Eye. All the underground hits.
All Pulsallama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cabaret Voltaire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Joy Division,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Roger Hodgson,
Fluxion,
Eddi Front,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Josef K,
Gang Green,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Steve Hackett,
Delon & Dalcan,
The New Christs,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Tres Demented,
Anakelly,
Lindisfarne,
John Foxx,
A Certain Ratio,
The Dave Clark Five,
Duran Duran,
Eric Dolphy,
the Association,
The Wake,
Idris Muhammad,
Don Cherry,
Lebanon Hanover,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Yaz,
Rhythm & Sound,
Popol Vuh,
The Move,
Supertramp,
Lightning Bolt,
Ossler,
Rites of Spring,
Johnny Clarke,
Dorothy Ashby,
Sister Nancy,
The Toasters,
James White and The Blacks,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Tim Buckley,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Davy DMX,
The Divine Comedy,
Ash Ra Tempel,
the Sonics,
Silicon Teens,
Zero Boys,
Funkadelic,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sight & Sound,
Trumans Water,
Ultra Naté,
Kerri Chandler,
Deepchord,
Public Enemy,
D'Angelo,
Second Layer,
Strawberry Alarm Clock, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Strawberry Alarm Clock.
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.