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 Lithuania and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 oboe 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 Little Man to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Clear Light. All the underground hits.
All Todd Rundgren 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 rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amazonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
Essential Logic,
Lindisfarne,
Wire,
FM Einheit,
Matthew Bourne,
U.S. Maple,
Arcadia,
Alison Limerick,
Aural Exciters,
Reagan Youth,
Bang On A Can,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Underground Resistance,
Fugazi,
Marine Girls,
Brass Construction,
The Human League,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Modern Lovers,
Surgeon,
cv313,
Fluxion,
Black Sheep,
Chris Corsano,
Jawbox,
Marvin Gaye,
Heaven 17,
Roy Ayers,
Inner City,
the Sonics,
Monks,
New York Dolls,
Mr. Review,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Agitation Free,
10cc,
Newcleus,
Piero Umiliani,
Rufus Thomas,
The Count Five,
Niagra,
This Heat,
Ice-T,
Eden Ahbez,
OOIOO,
H. Thieme,
Kenny Larkin,
Soft Machine,
The J.B.'s,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Delon & Dalcan,
Public Image Ltd.,
Letta Mbulu,
Pulsallama,
Boz Scaggs,
the Slits,
Buzzcocks,
Nils Olav,
Lakeside,
June of 44,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.