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 Fiji and from Manila.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Outsiders 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 Skaos. All the underground hits.
All The Litter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boredoms 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Slits record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Big Daddy Kane,
Pantaleimon,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Essential Logic,
Maleditus Sound,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Victims,
Visage,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Moss Icon,
Qualms,
Cheater Slicks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Public Enemy,
The Real Kids,
The Fuzztones,
Idris Muhammad,
H. Thieme,
The Human League,
Girls At Our Best!,
U.S. Maple,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Marmalade,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
London Community Gospel Choir,
X-Ray Spex,
The Birthday Party,
The Alarm Clocks,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Shoche,
Talk Talk,
Pole,
Bobby Womack,
World's Most,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Mojo Men,
The Detroit Cobras,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Banda Bassotti,
China Crisis,
Johnny Osbourne,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Harmonia,
Howard Jones,
Man Eating Sloth,
Bronski Beat,
The Invisible,
Ultravox,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Basic Channel,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Gang of Four,
The Beau Brummels,
Bush Tetras,
Gerry Rafferty,
David McCallum,
The Searchers,
Siglo XX,
the Swans,
Quantec,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Barry Ungar,
Jimmy McGriff,
Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu.
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.