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 Spain and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 It's A Beautiful Day to the rock 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 Animal Collective. All the underground hits.
All Prince Buster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mandrill record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June of 44 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?
David Axelrod,
Severed Heads,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Fuzztones,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Accadde A,
Animal Collective,
Avey Tare,
Soft Cell,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Mandrill,
Spoonie Gee,
DJ Sneak,
Swell Maps,
Gil Scott Heron,
Minor Threat,
The Alarm Clocks,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Tropical Tobacco,
Grandmaster Flash,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The J.B.'s,
Michelle Simonal,
The Beau Brummels,
The United States of America,
Sugar Minott,
Eric Dolphy,
The Durutti Column,
Anakelly,
Negative Approach,
Nas,
Anthony Braxton,
Cluster,
Supertramp,
Derrick Morgan,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Mo-Dettes,
Eli Mardock,
Lee Hazlewood,
Chris Corsano,
Funky Four + One,
LL Cool J,
The Litter,
Nils Olav,
The Blues Magoos,
Scientists,
Royal Trux,
Youth Brigade,
Andrew Hill,
Echospace,
Crispian St. Peters,
Porter Ricks,
Black Moon,
Lou Reed,
Aural Exciters,
Motorama,
48th St. Collective,
The Raincoats,
Charles Mingus,
Brass Construction,
Blake Baxter,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson.
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.