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 Togo and from Lille.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 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 Eric Dolphy to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 This Heat. All the underground hits.
All Albert Ayler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Toasters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a FM Einheit record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Qualms,
The Electric Prunes,
The Alarm Clocks,
Robert Görl,
The American Breed,
The Dead C,
Magma,
Fat Boys,
The Seeds,
Chris & Cosey,
Ludus,
The Cramps,
Jeru the Damaja,
The J.B.'s,
Harry Pussy,
Siglo XX,
K-Klass,
Camouflage,
FM Einheit,
Marc Almond,
Crooked Eye,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Sonics,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lakeside,
Stetsasonic,
Procol Harum,
Das Ding,
Mandrill,
the Swans,
The Angels of Light,
Brass Construction,
JFA,
The Walker Brothers,
DJ Sneak,
Rites of Spring,
Ralphi Rosario,
Isaac Hayes,
Colin Newman,
The Index,
Zapp,
Japan,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Judy Mowatt,
Lucky Dragons,
Outsiders,
Glenn Branca,
The Detroit Cobras,
Interpol,
Pantytec,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Golliwogs,
Depeche Mode,
Thee Headcoats,
China Crisis,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Arcadia,
Jerry's Kids,
Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra.
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.