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 Korea North and from London.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Michael McDonald 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 Von Mondo to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Scratch Acid. All the underground hits.
All The Move tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pagans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an arpeggiator and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Invisible record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Patti Smith,
The Monochrome Set,
the Association,
The Selecter,
Niagra,
Zapp,
Jimmy McGriff,
Yusef Lateef,
The Buckinghams,
Sight & Sound,
Bronski Beat,
Dead Boys,
The Gories,
Aloha Tigers,
The Knickerbockers,
The Evens,
Camberwell Now,
The Star Department,
Whodini,
10cc,
The Sonics,
The Remains,
The Smoke,
The Victims,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Derrick Morgan,
La Düsseldorf,
Tommy Roe,
Von Mondo,
Agent Orange,
Alison Limerick,
Essential Logic,
Marine Girls,
Roxy Music,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Stooges,
The Gladiators,
Scientists,
Rotary Connection,
Eden Ahbez,
Howard Jones,
Charles Mingus,
Pet Shop Boys,
Faraquet,
The Black Dice,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Hot Snakes,
New Order,
Marcia Griffiths,
Fad Gadget,
In Retrospect,
Fela Kuti,
Minny Pops,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Sound,
Sun Ra,
Fatback Band,
Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily.
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.