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 Ukraine and from Tokyo.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 rhodes 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 Monks to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Danielle Patucci. All the underground hits.
All Pole tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thompson Twins 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Susan Cadogan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Archie Shepp,
Shuggie Otis,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
X-Ray Spex,
The New Christs,
Deakin,
Simply Red,
Soft Cell,
Darondo,
Deadbeat,
Kevin Saunderson,
Camberwell Now,
Letta Mbulu,
Desert Stars,
The Associates,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Index,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Silicon Teens,
The Selecter,
Jacob Miller,
Wally Richardson,
The Real Kids,
Pulsallama,
a-ha,
Donny Hathaway,
Ludus,
Motorama,
Electric Prunes,
Bobby Hutcherson,
UT,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Neil Young,
Zapp,
This Heat,
Popol Vuh,
Kenny Larkin,
The Wake,
Glenn Branca,
The Fuzztones,
Arthur Verocai,
Camouflage,
Ossler,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Junior Murvin,
CMW,
Blancmange,
Kas Product,
Tropical Tobacco,
Vladislav Delay,
the Swans,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Derrick May,
U.S. Maple,
Mr. Review,
The Remains,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.