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 Slovakia and from London.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Paris.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Dorothy Ashby to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Siglo XX. All the underground hits.
All Curtis Mayfield tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rosa Yemen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Flag record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Urselle,
Mary Jane Girls,
Silicon Teens,
The Fall,
Boz Scaggs,
Alison Limerick,
Rakim,
Bobby Byrd,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Althea and Donna,
Black Bananas,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Second Layer,
Scrapy,
Cymande,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Modern Lovers,
the Human League,
Saccharine Trust,
Eli Mardock,
Arcadia,
Prince Buster,
Wings,
In Retrospect,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Quadrant,
David Axelrod,
Josef K,
Wally Richardson,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
James White and The Blacks,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Cramps,
Agitation Free,
The Human League,
Gastr Del Sol,
Banda Bassotti,
Au Pairs,
Derrick May,
The Busters,
FM Einheit,
Angry Samoans,
Pet Shop Boys,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
MDC,
Stockholm Monsters,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Raincoats,
Archie Shepp,
Panda Bear,
Dark Day,
K-Klass,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Average White Band,
Icehouse,
Soft Cell,
The Gladiators,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Gang Starr,
Brothers Johnson,
Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane.
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.