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 Cape Verde and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 mellotron 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud to the jazz 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 Be Bop Deluxe. All the underground hits.
All Siouxsie and the Banshees tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick Morgan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultimate Spinach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aaron Thompson,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Dawn Penn,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Glenn Branca,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Gregory Isaacs,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Selecter,
Josef K,
Bang On A Can,
Au Pairs,
Pulsallama,
John Lydon,
Magma,
Throbbing Gristle,
Nik Kershaw,
Wings,
Rekid,
Lou Christie,
Fugazi,
Be Bop Deluxe,
MC5,
Technova,
Surgeon,
Jerry's Kids,
Y Pants,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Chrome,
Urselle,
Quadrant,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Amon Düül,
Terrestrial Tones,
Hasil Adkins,
Talk Talk,
Juan Atkins,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Malaria!,
The Gories,
Zapp,
The Evens,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Soft Machine,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Faust,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Mandrill,
Arcadia,
Sight & Sound,
Eurythmics,
Subhumans,
Gang of Four,
Deakin,
Scan 7,
the Association,
Bootsy Collins,
Metal Thangz,
Lalann,
Moebius, Moebius, Moebius, Moebius.
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.