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 Haiti and from Lagos.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Sparks to the disco 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 Moss Icon. All the underground hits.
All ABBA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every a-ha record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Public Enemy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Fat Boys,
Johnny Clarke,
Sight & Sound,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Shuggie Otis,
Kenny Larkin,
UT,
Mary Jane Girls,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Gang Green,
Basic Channel,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
E-Dancer,
Peter & Gordon,
Tom Boy,
Delta 5,
Darondo,
Bobby Womack,
Outsiders,
Eric B and Rakim,
T.S.O.L.,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Pretty Things,
Jandek,
Easy Going,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Blackbyrds,
Second Layer,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Traffic Nightmare,
Radio Birdman,
Talk Talk,
DNA,
Cymande,
Eric Copeland,
Erykah Badu,
Marc Almond,
MDC,
Andrew Hill,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Nils Olav,
CMW,
Archie Shepp,
The Fortunes,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Morten Harket,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Camouflage,
Glambeats Corp.,
Stiv Bators,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
the Bar-Kays,
X-Ray Spex,
John Foxx,
Section 25,
Yusef Lateef,
The Martian,
Altered Images,
Minutemen,
ABBA,
The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites.
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.