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 Italy and from Winnipeg.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 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 Boz Scaggs to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Prince Buster. All the underground hits.
All Moss Icon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kas Product record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erykah Badu,
Soft Cell,
Eddi Front,
Johnny Osbourne,
Scrapy,
Qualms,
8 Eyed Spy,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Leaves,
Schoolly D,
The Litter,
kango's stein massive,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Marc Almond,
Roy Ayers,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Index,
The Angels of Light,
Thompson Twins,
Chris & Cosey,
Interpol,
Ken Boothe,
Erasure,
Skarface,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Cowsills,
Jeru the Damaja,
DJ Sneak,
The Happenings,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Barclay James Harvest,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sun City Girls,
Eden Ahbez,
The Fire Engines,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Darondo,
Chrome,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Monochrome Set,
Lindisfarne,
Dennis Brown,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Rosa Yemen,
Black Pus,
Unrelated Segments,
Swans,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
X-102,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Yaz,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Young Rascals,
Curtis Mayfield,
Roxette,
The Gladiators,
Archie Shepp,
Lungfish,
The Dead C,
Suicide, Suicide, Suicide, Suicide.
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.