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 Luxembourg and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Hot Snakes to the crunk 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 Liliput. All the underground hits.
All Soft Machine 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 techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Wally Richardson,
Mad Mike,
Tim Buckley,
Television Personalities,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Quando Quango,
T. Rex,
Gang Green,
Franke,
Harmonia,
Circle Jerks,
Boz Scaggs,
Average White Band,
The Stooges,
Suicide,
Pierre Henry,
Oblivians,
Animal Collective,
Alice Coltrane,
Black Bananas,
Altered Images,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Sexual Harrassment,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Moby Grape,
Yazoo,
The Human League,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Eden Ahbez,
David Bowie,
Davy DMX,
The American Breed,
DJ Style,
Hardrive,
Hoover,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Grass Roots,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sarah Menescal,
The Misunderstood,
Panda Bear,
The Dave Clark Five,
Morten Harket,
The Cramps,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Fifty Foot Hose,
Audionom,
Quadrant,
Bad Manners,
Laurel Aitken,
Fugazi,
Swans,
Ornette Coleman,
Minor Threat,
Thee Headcoats,
X-Ray Spex,
The Fortunes,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren.
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.