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 Iran and from London.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 8 Eyed Spy to the crunk 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 Second Layer. All the underground hits.
All Yaz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smiths record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Litter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Jacques Brel,
Chris & Cosey,
Kaleidoscope,
Fluxion,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lungfish,
Kool Moe Dee,
Bill Wells,
Black Bananas,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
T.S.O.L.,
Sarah Menescal,
Harmonia,
The Barracudas,
Flash Fearless,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Andrew Hill,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Alton Ellis,
Swell Maps,
Amon Düül II,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Franke,
Intrusion,
the Soft Cell,
Model 500,
Nirvana,
The Techniques,
EPMD,
Monks,
The Beau Brummels,
Deakin,
Nico,
DJ Style,
Sandy B,
Siglo XX,
Metal Thangz,
The Seeds,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
LL Cool J,
Blancmange,
Janne Schatter,
Japan,
8 Eyed Spy,
the Human League,
Inner City,
Delta 5,
Al Stewart,
Ornette Coleman,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gerry Rafferty,
Little Man,
The Smiths,
Glambeats Corp.,
Black Flag,
Lou Christie,
Kurtis Blow,
Sister Nancy,
AZ,
Reagan Youth,
The Raincoats,
Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons.
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.