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 Russia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Lou Reed 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 The Electric Prunes to the rock 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 Grey Daturas. All the underground hits.
All The Angels of Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rakim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
The Human League,
Quadrant,
Jacob Miller,
Crash Course in Science,
Letta Mbulu,
Slick Rick,
Derrick Morgan,
Unrelated Segments,
Roy Ayers,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Dark Day,
Parry Music,
The Vogues,
Panda Bear,
Rites of Spring,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Red Krayola,
Maurizio,
June of 44,
The Trojans,
Half Japanese,
Dual Sessions,
Minny Pops,
Dawn Penn,
Sun City Girls,
Sällskapet,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kenny Larkin,
Curtis Mayfield,
Intrusion,
Mars,
Yaz,
John Cale,
Deepchord,
Gregory Isaacs,
Iggy Pop,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sonny Sharrock,
Carl Craig,
Model 500,
Guru Guru,
Popol Vuh,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Alison Limerick,
Matthew Bourne,
Scientists,
Sex Pistols,
Porter Ricks,
Arthur Verocai,
Joy Division,
Lou Christie,
Marmalade,
The Knickerbockers,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
AZ,
Judy Mowatt,
The Black Dice,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One.
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.