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 Switzerland and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Lou Reed 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 Lee Hazlewood 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 Doors. All the underground hits.
All The Motions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Godley & Creme 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 marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dorothy Ashby record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Young Rascals,
Eli Mardock,
Soulsonic Force,
Sugar Minott,
Skaos,
The Blackbyrds,
AZ,
The Monochrome Set,
Robert Görl,
Mars,
Hot Snakes,
Brick,
Youth Brigade,
The Searchers,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Michelle Simonal,
Y Pants,
Ten City,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Zeros,
F. McDonald,
Godley & Creme,
the Association,
Absolute Body Control,
Gang of Four,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Dead C,
Bang On A Can,
Smog,
The Motions,
The Standells,
The Cure,
Susan Cadogan,
Thee Headcoats,
The Gun Club,
Cecil Taylor,
In Retrospect,
Donny Hathaway,
Tomorrow,
Radiohead,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
David Bowie,
Gastr Del Sol,
Tim Buckley,
10cc,
The Neon Judgement,
The Misunderstood,
Johnny Clarke,
Juan Atkins,
Basic Channel,
Groovy Waters,
Flipper,
The Fire Engines,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
CMW,
Matthew Halsall,
Excepter,
Brand Nubian,
Ohio Players,
The Skatalites,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))).
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.