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 Jordan and from Manila.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Sun Ra Arkestra to the techno 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 Roxy Music. All the underground hits.
All Agitation Free tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalo Schifrin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shuggie Otis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boogie Down Productions,
Pierre Henry,
the Normal,
MC5,
Kenny Larkin,
Funky Four + One,
Deadbeat,
Erasure,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Zeros,
Swans,
These Immortal Souls,
The Human League,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sonic Youth,
Slave,
The Modern Lovers,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Names,
Das Ding,
Black Moon,
B.T. Express,
Todd Rundgren,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Scratch Acid,
OOIOO,
Goldenarms,
Zero Boys,
The Slackers,
John Coltrane,
Parry Music,
Jawbox,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Tres Demented,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Red Krayola,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Maurizio,
The Durutti Column,
Mad Mike,
Wasted Youth,
UT,
The Blues Magoos,
PIL,
Nico,
Joy Division,
Stetsasonic,
Von Mondo,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Smog,
The Smoke,
Curtis Mayfield,
Quadrant,
Outsiders,
Livin' Joy,
The American Breed,
Saccharine Trust,
Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs.
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.