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 Yemen and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 rhodes 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 The Sound to the rock 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 The Grass Roots. All the underground hits.
All ABBA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a AZ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sällskapet,
Royal Trux,
Crooked Eye,
Sam Rivers,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Toni Rubio,
Leonard Cohen,
The Alarm Clocks,
Maurizio,
a-ha,
Juan Atkins,
Can,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ossler,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Gories,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Stooges,
Delon & Dalcan,
Moebius,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
China Crisis,
Desert Stars,
This Heat,
Average White Band,
The Modern Lovers,
The Sound,
Deadbeat,
Camouflage,
Hasil Adkins,
Minnie Riperton,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Raincoats,
Eden Ahbez,
A Certain Ratio,
Anakelly,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Walker Brothers,
Rhythm & Sound,
Babytalk,
Eli Mardock,
Jacques Brel,
Kaleidoscope,
Saccharine Trust,
Howard Jones,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Ken Boothe,
Davy DMX,
Spandau Ballet,
Radiohead,
Make Up,
Aaron Thompson,
Peter and Kerry,
Technova,
The Fuzztones,
Bad Manners,
The Divine Comedy,
Chrome,
Flamin' Groovies,
Grey Daturas,
The Young Rascals,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.