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 Ireland and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 rhodes 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 Iggy Pop to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All Ornette Coleman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every UT record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mo-Dettes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erykah Badu,
The Remains,
Eddi Front,
Mantronix,
Tomorrow,
Guru Guru,
Freddie Wadling,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Josef K,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Eden Ahbez,
Erasure,
Animal Collective,
Lungfish,
The J.B.'s,
Connie Case,
Tommy Roe,
the Bar-Kays,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Marine Girls,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Terry Callier,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Shuggie Otis,
Kerri Chandler,
Basic Channel,
Scott Walker,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ultra Naté,
Joe Smooth,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Misunderstood,
Sandy B,
Desert Stars,
L. Decosne,
The Wake,
Royal Trux,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Gap Band,
Aloha Tigers,
Iggy Pop,
Jesper Dahlback,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Stooges,
The Real Kids,
Buzzcocks,
Public Image Ltd.,
Quando Quango,
Moss Icon,
Moebius,
Bill Near,
Yellowson,
T.S.O.L.,
Pylon,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Mark Hollis,
Procol Harum,
Jacob Miller,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Chris & Cosey,
Yazoo,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sexual Harrassment, Sexual Harrassment, Sexual Harrassment, Sexual Harrassment.
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.