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 Malta and from Taipei.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Normal to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Fuzztones. All the underground hits.
All Aaron Thompson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rufus Thomas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sällskapet,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Skatalites,
Pet Shop Boys,
48th St. Collective,
Robert Hood,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Faraquet,
The Smiths,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
David Axelrod,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Little Man,
Von Mondo,
The Alarm Clocks,
Wings,
Soul Sonic Force,
Yusef Lateef,
Cybotron,
Urselle,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lightning Bolt,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
DJ Sneak,
Jacques Brel,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Crash Course in Science,
Warren Ellis,
Sparks,
K-Klass,
The Dave Clark Five,
Roxy Music,
Sight & Sound,
Girls At Our Best!,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Selecter,
Niagra,
The Red Krayola,
Kerri Chandler,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Nik Kershaw,
Mantronix,
Crime,
The Fuzztones,
Hashim,
Bobby Sherman,
The Electric Prunes,
Unrelated Segments,
The Raincoats,
Magma,
Donny Hathaway,
The Monks,
Andrew Hill,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Clear Light,
The Martian,
Negative Approach,
The Human League,
Depeche Mode,
Amon Düül,
Crispy Ambulance,
Panda Bear,
Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo.
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.