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 Uzbekistan and from Toronto.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Heaven 17 to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux. All the underground hits.
All Ultra Naté tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Blackbyrds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eve St. Jones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Fraelich,
Peter & Gordon,
Joe Smooth,
AZ,
The Cramps,
Dual Sessions,
Andrew Hill,
Susan Cadogan,
Shuggie Otis,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Index,
Alton Ellis,
Neu!,
Skarface,
Scott Walker,
Section 25,
Rod Modell,
Freddie Wadling,
Barbara Tucker,
The Zeros,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Jimmy McGriff,
Godley & Creme,
La Düsseldorf,
Saccharine Trust,
T.S.O.L.,
The Vogues,
Minny Pops,
kango's stein massive,
Boz Scaggs,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ten City,
Minutemen,
the Association,
Malaria!,
Brand Nubian,
The Selecter,
Yazoo,
Magma,
Panda Bear,
Robert Wyatt,
John Cale,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Iggy Pop,
Soul Sonic Force,
Josef K,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Grass Roots,
Drive Like Jehu,
Boredoms,
Fatback Band,
The J.B.'s,
Hasil Adkins,
Alison Limerick,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Real Kids,
Warren Ellis,
Half Japanese,
Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton.
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.