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 Lithuania and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 güiro 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 Lower 48 to the grime 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 Doobie Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Anthony Braxton tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lebanon Hanover record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
Brothers Johnson,
Deepchord,
the Fania All-Stars,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Flamin' Groovies,
Ten City,
Pere Ubu,
Ronnie Foster,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Inner City,
Black Moon,
Eve St. Jones,
The Wake,
Arthur Verocai,
The Electric Prunes,
Index,
Siglo XX,
Ronan,
The Remains,
Lou Reed,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Archie Shepp,
The Names,
the Swans,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sexual Harrassment,
Stereo Dub,
Underground Resistance,
Joy Division,
The Gun Club,
Ice-T,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Throbbing Gristle,
Zero Boys,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Marine Girls,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Rhythm & Sound,
Duran Duran,
Depeche Mode,
The Stooges,
Skriet,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
48th St. Collective,
Erykah Badu,
Roger Hodgson,
Scott Walker,
The Flesh Eaters,
Michelle Simonal,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Cluster,
Sight & Sound,
The Techniques,
La Düsseldorf,
The Gap Band,
Nirvana,
Junior Murvin,
Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster.
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.