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 Chad and from Paris.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 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 Delon & Dalcan to the funk 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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All Al Stewart tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Silicon Teens record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Organ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
Tommy Roe,
Unwound,
Aural Exciters,
Nik Kershaw,
Barrington Levy,
Procol Harum,
Animal Collective,
Eden Ahbez,
Easy Going,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Soft Cell,
A Certain Ratio,
Guru Guru,
Donald Byrd,
Make Up,
Index,
Byron Stingily,
The Walker Brothers,
Andrew Hill,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Red Krayola,
Leonard Cohen,
EPMD,
E-Dancer,
The Pretty Things,
Average White Band,
Japan,
Lalo Schifrin,
Slick Rick,
The Smoke,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Youth Brigade,
One Last Wish,
The Count Five,
Glambeats Corp.,
Popol Vuh,
The Gun Club,
Roger Hodgson,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
ABBA,
Sound Behaviour,
Isaac Hayes,
Mandrill,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Carl Craig,
Eddi Front,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Dirtbombs,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Fugs,
Theoretical Girls,
The Happenings,
Malaria!,
Jimmy McGriff,
John Holt,
The Wake,
Trumans Water,
Heaven 17,
Kerri Chandler,
The Techniques,
Warren Ellis,
Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios.
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.