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 Uruguay and from Stockholm.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the funk 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 De La Soul & Jungle Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Black Flag tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yaz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Simply Red record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ohio Players,
Kaleidoscope,
Bluetip,
The Count Five,
Drive Like Jehu,
Yazoo,
The Tremeloes,
Blancmange,
Maleditus Sound,
the Soft Cell,
The Gap Band,
La Düsseldorf,
Tom Boy,
Fatback Band,
Pagans,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Flamin' Groovies,
Nick Fraelich,
Q and Not U,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Audionom,
Eli Mardock,
Jandek,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
EPMD,
Siglo XX,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Kayak,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Steve Hackett,
Harmonia,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
LL Cool J,
Soft Machine,
Schoolly D,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Radio Birdman,
Eddi Front,
Popol Vuh,
Sixth Finger,
The Selecter,
Funkadelic,
the Sonics,
R.M.O.,
Arcadia,
The Angels of Light,
Agitation Free,
Al Stewart,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Black Bananas,
Dennis Brown,
the Bar-Kays,
Cal Tjader,
Whodini,
Hasil Adkins,
Kerri Chandler,
Symarip,
kango's stein massive,
Circle Jerks,
The Dave Clark Five,
Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster.
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.