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 East Timor and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 mellotron 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 Heavy D & The Boyz to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Velvet Underground. All the underground hits.
All Godley & Creme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fad Gadget,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Ralphi Rosario,
FM Einheit,
David Axelrod,
Ultra Naté,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The American Breed,
Grandmaster Flash,
Jeff Mills,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Eden Ahbez,
Agitation Free,
Amon Düül II,
The Standells,
Alison Limerick,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Scratch Acid,
Eric B and Rakim,
Camouflage,
Scan 7,
The Tremeloes,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Joy Division,
Derrick Morgan,
Nirvana,
The Alarm Clocks,
Jawbox,
The Evens,
Letta Mbulu,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Unrelated Segments,
UT,
The Residents,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Scion,
Bobby Sherman,
Severed Heads,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Isaac Hayes,
The Misunderstood,
Derrick May,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Black Dice,
Terry Callier,
Warsaw,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
the Slits,
Yusef Lateef,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Desert Stars,
Sex Pistols,
Freddie Wadling,
Cecil Taylor,
Black Bananas,
Los Fastidios,
The Techniques,
Nation of Ulysses,
Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly.
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.