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 Peru and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 the Slits to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Gang Gang Dance. All the underground hits.
All Gang of Four tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grey Daturas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scion 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?
FM Einheit,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Negative Approach,
Siglo XX,
Camberwell Now,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Blossom Toes,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Reagan Youth,
Eurythmics,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Cramps,
The Happenings,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Connie Case,
Yazoo,
Agent Orange,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Fear,
Ten City,
Newcleus,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
World's Most,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Barbara Tucker,
Urselle,
Soft Cell,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
China Crisis,
Lucky Dragons,
Vainqueur,
Cluster,
The Moody Blues,
Pylon,
Bauhaus,
Lalann,
The Toasters,
The Index,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Peter and Kerry,
The Gladiators,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Monochrome Set,
Fluxion,
Organ,
E-Dancer,
These Immortal Souls,
The Martian,
Neil Young,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
June of 44,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Derrick Morgan,
Talk Talk,
Tim Buckley,
Electric Light Orchestra,
UT,
The Mojo Men,
The Electric Prunes,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Todd Terry,
Duran Duran,
The Fortunes,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.