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 Canada and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Copenhagen.
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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Fatback Band to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Mary Jane Girls. All the underground hits.
All Mad Mike tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pylon,
Jandek,
The Monochrome Set,
Gichy Dan,
Metal Thangz,
Das Ding,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Grass Roots,
the Bar-Kays,
Visage,
The Golliwogs,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Doors,
Drexciya,
Tommy Roe,
Oneida,
Brand Nubian,
Marvin Gaye,
Man Parrish,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Kas Product,
The J.B.'s,
U.S. Maple,
The Moleskins,
Warsaw,
The Red Krayola,
The Neon Judgement,
Dennis Brown,
LL Cool J,
Saccharine Trust,
Gerry Rafferty,
Silicon Teens,
the Association,
Half Japanese,
Gil Scott Heron,
Lower 48,
Ludus,
T.S.O.L.,
Robert Hood,
The Blackbyrds,
Icehouse,
Hardrive,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Jimmy McGriff,
Black Moon,
Cymande,
Eric Dolphy,
Wings,
Bad Manners,
The Divine Comedy,
Babytalk,
Delta 5,
Alton Ellis,
Stetsasonic,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Rakim,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Blake Baxter,
Patti Smith,
Eddi Front,
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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.