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 Ukraine and from Portland.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 K-Klass to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Ronan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dirtbombs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Eddi Front,
Cybotron,
Joe Smooth,
Adolescents,
Underground Resistance,
Popol Vuh,
the Fania All-Stars,
Harmonia,
Flash Fearless,
Sparks,
Yusef Lateef,
Amon Düül II,
Iggy Pop,
Drexciya,
The Flesh Eaters,
New York Dolls,
Stiv Bators,
The Dirtbombs,
Slave,
Byron Stingily,
Rapeman,
Quadrant,
10cc,
The Music Machine,
Pulsallama,
The Electric Prunes,
Jesper Dahlback,
Minutemen,
Surgeon,
Isaac Hayes,
The Dead C,
The Skatalites,
The Pretty Things,
Moby Grape,
Bobby Womack,
Con Funk Shun,
Nils Olav,
Alison Limerick,
Infiniti,
Crash Course in Science,
The Young Rascals,
cv313,
Thee Headcoats,
The Sound,
Sällskapet,
EPMD,
Nirvana,
The Monks,
Dave Gahan,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Dual Sessions,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bill Near,
AZ,
Bob Dylan,
The Durutti Column,
Silicon Teens,
Henry Cow,
Mandrill,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Alphaville,
Terrestrial Tones,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.