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 Mexico and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 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 Main Source to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Ultimate Spinach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Can record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fifty Foot Hose record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Saccharine Trust,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Smoke,
Lower 48,
Glambeats Corp.,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Dave Gahan,
The Mighty Diamonds,
R.M.O.,
Dawn Penn,
Janne Schatter,
Alton Ellis,
Radio Birdman,
Mark Hollis,
Brand Nubian,
Pantaleimon,
Blake Baxter,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Jacques Brel,
Public Enemy,
Mad Mike,
Schoolly D,
The Selecter,
Ralphi Rosario,
Henry Cow,
The Offenders,
Cluster,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Monochrome Set,
Scott Walker,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Accadde A,
The New Christs,
Average White Band,
The Dave Clark Five,
Stereo Dub,
MC5,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Gap Band,
Section 25,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Brass Construction,
The Fugs,
Liliput,
The Searchers,
Ossler,
Barrington Levy,
Dennis Brown,
Harpers Bizarre,
Essential Logic,
Todd Rundgren,
Camberwell Now,
the Sonics,
Joensuu 1685,
Lee Hazlewood,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Happenings,
Brick,
Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe.
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.