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 Guyana and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 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 Althea and Donna to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All The Last Poets tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every OOIOO record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Theoretical Girls 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?
Ronnie Foster,
Stetsasonic,
The Selecter,
Leonard Cohen,
Supertramp,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Clear Light,
Frankie Knuckles,
Chris & Cosey,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Trumans Water,
Goldenarms,
The Move,
Grey Daturas,
Essential Logic,
In Retrospect,
Brick,
cv313,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
the Slits,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
the Normal,
Flash Fearless,
Panda Bear,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Moleskins,
The Sound,
Malaria!,
Boz Scaggs,
Flipper,
Hoover,
Lou Christie,
The Tremeloes,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Half Japanese,
Girls At Our Best!,
Oblivians,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Eli Mardock,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ice-T,
Adolescents,
Symarip,
Scan 7,
Porter Ricks,
Swans,
The Toasters,
X-102,
Alton Ellis,
Quadrant,
Drexciya,
The Standells,
10cc,
Eyeless In Gaza,
F. McDonald,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Saccharine Trust,
DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style.
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.