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 South Sudan and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 guitar 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 UT to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Masters at Work. All the underground hits.
All Fad Gadget tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kool G Rap & DJ Polo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonny Sharrock,
Joey Negro,
Sun City Girls,
Moby Grape,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Tremeloes,
Gang Gang Dance,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Seeds,
Echospace,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
ABC,
John Coltrane,
Ultravox,
Yellowson,
Khruangbin,
Talk Talk,
Fela Kuti,
The Slits,
Cymande,
Toni Rubio,
Excepter,
The Dead C,
Flipper,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Fire Engines,
Roxette,
Crooked Eye,
Soft Machine,
Agitation Free,
Ronnie Foster,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Sam Rivers,
Amon Düül II,
The Kinks,
Deakin,
Minny Pops,
Sandy B,
Half Japanese,
Mr. Review,
Boogie Down Productions,
Bootsy Collins,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Drive Like Jehu,
Ten City,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Technova,
The Fuzztones,
The Victims,
The Young Rascals,
The Stooges,
Dead Boys,
Minnie Riperton,
Junior Murvin,
Iggy Pop,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Das Ding,
Ohio Players,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.