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 Bahrain and from Tokyo.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Fela Kuti 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 The Pop Group. All the underground hits.
All Roxette tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boz Scaggs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Supertramp,
Banda Bassotti,
Avey Tare,
Alison Limerick,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Nirvana,
The Real Kids,
Kas Product,
Quantec,
Hardrive,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Hoover,
Lou Christie,
The Cure,
Ronan,
Outsiders,
The Martian,
Mark Hollis,
Sound Behaviour,
Dual Sessions,
Thee Headcoats,
Minny Pops,
Oblivians,
The Gun Club,
Delon & Dalcan,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Flash Fearless,
Girls At Our Best!,
Barbara Tucker,
Jerry's Kids,
The Music Machine,
Fluxion,
Gastr Del Sol,
Vladislav Delay,
Neil Young,
Nation of Ulysses,
Ralphi Rosario,
KRS-One,
The Searchers,
Sandy B,
Monolake,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sun Ra,
Donny Hathaway,
Stockholm Monsters,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Johnny Osbourne,
Icehouse,
Lakeside,
The Last Poets,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Neu!,
the Soft Cell,
The New Christs,
Liliput,
Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew.
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.