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 Slovakia and from Philadelphia.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Q65 to the rock 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 Neu!. All the underground hits.
All Sam Rivers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agitation Free record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxy Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Panda Bear,
Lou Christie,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Kurtis Blow,
Skaos,
Minnie Riperton,
Lindisfarne,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Frankie Knuckles,
KRS-One,
Reuben Wilson,
Nas,
Iggy Pop,
Intrusion,
Underground Resistance,
F. McDonald,
Boredoms,
Icehouse,
Toni Rubio,
Pere Ubu,
Marvin Gaye,
Matthew Bourne,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Maurizio,
Shoche,
David McCallum,
Freddie Wadling,
Kaleidoscope,
Slave,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
CMW,
Minny Pops,
Barry Ungar,
Prince Buster,
The Dead C,
Ronnie Foster,
Lebanon Hanover,
Vladislav Delay,
Zapp,
Neil Young,
Flamin' Groovies,
Gang of Four,
The Selecter,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
the Bar-Kays,
Albert Ayler,
Blossom Toes,
The Evens,
Black Pus,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Chrome,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Chris & Cosey,
Joe Finger,
LL Cool J,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Amon Düül II,
The Beau Brummels,
Eddi Front,
Gabor Szabo,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Misunderstood,
Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music.
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.