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 Mozambique and from Lyon.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Desert Stars to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Bronski Beat. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arab on Radar 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 marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Panda Bear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aaron Thompson,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Vainqueur,
Scratch Acid,
New York Dolls,
Youth Brigade,
Peter & Gordon,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Agent Orange,
Little Man,
Rotary Connection,
Panda Bear,
Man Eating Sloth,
Roxette,
Lou Christie,
Absolute Body Control,
X-101,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Ituana,
Ten City,
Los Fastidios,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Glenn Branca,
Mantronix,
Stockholm Monsters,
Spandau Ballet,
The Pretty Things,
The Barracudas,
Clear Light,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
MDC,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Standells,
The Evens,
Andrew Hill,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Japan,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sight & Sound,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Soul II Soul,
the Slits,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sam Rivers,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Real Kids,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sonic Youth,
Iggy Pop,
Soul Sonic Force,
Vladislav Delay,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Skaos,
Trumans Water,
Black Sheep,
Gabor Szabo,
Gerry Rafferty,
Q and Not U,
The Young Rascals,
The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers.
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.