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 Cameroon and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the organ 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 Unwound to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Rhythm & Sound. All the underground hits.
All Vladislav Delay tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Simply Red record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker,
Blake Baxter,
The Misunderstood,
Hasil Adkins,
The Evens,
Jandek,
Pylon,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Cameo,
Byron Stingily,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ohio Players,
Derrick May,
Groovy Waters,
Kenny Larkin,
Roger Hodgson,
James White and The Blacks,
Main Source,
Joe Finger,
Hashim,
Sandy B,
Barbara Tucker,
Yusef Lateef,
Fear,
Unrelated Segments,
Bill Wells,
Marine Girls,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
John Lydon,
Motorama,
Moby Grape,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Tropical Tobacco,
Andrew Hill,
T.S.O.L.,
Babytalk,
The Last Poets,
The Gories,
Matthew Bourne,
Crooked Eye,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Isaac Hayes,
Ultra Naté,
Interpol,
Mantronix,
Nils Olav,
Dual Sessions,
Rod Modell,
Alice Coltrane,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Gang Green,
The Alarm Clocks,
Howard Jones,
Guru Guru,
Banda Bassotti,
Sällskapet,
The Mummies,
Crispy Ambulance,
Livin' Joy,
The J.B.'s,
Dead Boys,
The Standells, The Standells, The Standells, The Standells.
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.