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 Ivory Coast and from Beijing.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 güiro 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 Darondo to the grunge 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 Parry Music. All the underground hits.
All Nils Olav tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quando Quango record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
E-Dancer,
Letta Mbulu,
Mantronix,
Panda Bear,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Skarface,
Desert Stars,
Second Layer,
Pharoah Sanders,
Crime,
Technova,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Index,
Sonic Youth,
Maleditus Sound,
The Cowsills,
Brand Nubian,
Joey Negro,
Babytalk,
David Axelrod,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sandy B,
The Martian,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Half Japanese,
Fugazi,
Peter & Gordon,
Skaos,
Y Pants,
Lower 48,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Delta 5,
Eric Copeland,
The Happenings,
Radiohead,
Lou Christie,
8 Eyed Spy,
Tubeway Army,
Freddie Wadling,
Outsiders,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Stereo Dub,
The Angels of Light,
DJ Sneak,
Jawbox,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sarah Menescal,
The Associates,
Metal Thangz,
Gang Gang Dance,
Suicide,
T. Rex,
The Neon Judgement,
Kas Product,
Sugar Minott,
Rod Modell,
cv313,
Alison Limerick,
Morten Harket,
Au Pairs,
Monks,
Severed Heads,
The Cure, The Cure, The Cure, The Cure.
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.