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 Paraguay and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Mumbai.
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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 EPMD to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 David McCallum. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barbara Tucker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick May,
Sun Ra,
Sex Pistols,
Graham Central Station,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lou Reed,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Wake,
Skaos,
the Swans,
the Sonics,
Grandmaster Flash,
FM Einheit,
Visage,
X-101,
Minor Threat,
Bauhaus,
EPMD,
The Sonics,
Moebius,
John Coltrane,
the Association,
The Fugs,
Pulsallama,
The Names,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Nick Fraelich,
Frankie Knuckles,
Public Enemy,
Derrick Morgan,
Q65,
Drive Like Jehu,
Ralphi Rosario,
Wolf Eyes,
The American Breed,
Young Marble Giants,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Ten City,
Jerry's Kids,
Smog,
Slave,
Aloha Tigers,
Marshall Jefferson,
Procol Harum,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Robert Wyatt,
Cal Tjader,
The Associates,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Magazine,
Kaleidoscope,
Kevin Saunderson,
Hoover,
T.S.O.L.,
Make Up,
Joyce Sims,
The Zeros,
The Remains,
Panda Bear,
Electric Prunes,
Skriet,
Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty.
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.