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 Jamaica and from Hong Kong.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 John Coltrane to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Camberwell Now. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 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 a clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mandrill,
Joy Division,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Black Moon,
Chris Corsano,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Wolf Eyes,
The Gap Band,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Audionom,
Donny Hathaway,
Hardrive,
Can,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Morten Harket,
Traffic Nightmare,
Drexciya,
JFA,
The Skatalites,
James Chance & The Contortions,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Pole,
Hot Snakes,
Aaron Thompson,
John Holt,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Rhythm & Sound,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Ludus,
Big Daddy Kane,
Janne Schatter,
Gil Scott Heron,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Animal Collective,
Robert Hood,
Derrick Morgan,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Fire Engines,
The Smiths,
Connie Case,
Joey Negro,
The Toasters,
T.S.O.L.,
Malaria!,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Barrington Levy,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
This Heat,
Qualms,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Juan Atkins,
Scrapy,
Icehouse,
Excepter,
Unwound,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Josef K,
X-101,
Black Pus,
Funkadelic,
Flipper,
Crooked Eye, Crooked Eye, Crooked Eye, Crooked Eye.
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.