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 Bahamas and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and New York.
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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Juan Atkins to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All Aloha Tigers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pagans,
Joensuu 1685,
Rufus Thomas,
David Axelrod,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Aaron Thompson,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Liliput,
Patti Smith,
Blake Baxter,
Rhythm & Sound,
48th St. Collective,
Goldenarms,
Unwound,
Rites of Spring,
L. Decosne,
Sister Nancy,
Rakim,
John Coltrane,
Darondo,
Flash Fearless,
Crime,
Magma,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Pop Group,
Anthony Braxton,
Smog,
Swell Maps,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
June Days,
World's Most,
Mad Mike,
The Remains,
Barbara Tucker,
John Foxx,
Michelle Simonal,
Ultravox,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Donald Byrd,
Eric Dolphy,
Zero Boys,
Dorothy Ashby,
Yaz,
Echospace,
the Germs,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Dirtbombs,
Porter Ricks,
Terry Callier,
The American Breed,
Arcadia,
Wire,
MDC,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Infiniti,
Alice Coltrane,
Little Man,
Guru Guru,
Stiv Bators,
Wings,
Faust, Faust, Faust, Faust.
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.