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 Kosovo and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 Columbus and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Tomorrow to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Lyres. All the underground hits.
All Fort Wilson Riot tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ituana,
Moss Icon,
Das Ding,
Lalo Schifrin,
Tomorrow,
Howard Jones,
the Slits,
ABBA,
John Lydon,
Nik Kershaw,
Bronski Beat,
OOIOO,
Lungfish,
The Motions,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Blackbyrds,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
FM Einheit,
R.M.O.,
Sight & Sound,
Banda Bassotti,
Nils Olav,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Barrington Levy,
Little Man,
Eric Copeland,
Patti Smith,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bob Dylan,
Parry Music,
Sandy B,
Bootsy Collins,
Brass Construction,
Soft Machine,
The Skatalites,
Kenny Larkin,
Isaac Hayes,
Negative Approach,
Grauzone,
Terrestrial Tones,
Gichy Dan,
Mo-Dettes,
The Martian,
Delon & Dalcan,
Black Bananas,
Harmonia,
Wally Richardson,
The Vogues,
Toni Rubio,
The Happenings,
Johnny Osbourne,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
James White and The Blacks,
The Saints,
The Black Dice,
Godley & Creme,
June Days,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Ken Boothe,
Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid.
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.