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 Ghana and from Lyon.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Albert Ayler to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Yusef Lateef. All the underground hits.
All the Normal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doobie Brothers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Letta Mbulu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
MC5,
Scan 7,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Buckinghams,
Glenn Branca,
The Saints,
Robert Wyatt,
Girls At Our Best!,
Marine Girls,
Cymande,
Freddie Wadling,
The Five Americans,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Agitation Free,
Glambeats Corp.,
Ralphi Rosario,
Loose Ends,
The Detroit Cobras,
Moebius,
Flipper,
The Angels of Light,
The Last Poets,
Main Source,
Unwound,
Reuben Wilson,
Bad Manners,
The Wake,
New Order,
The Litter,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Barrington Levy,
Wally Richardson,
Lindisfarne,
The Cure,
Moby Grape,
Quadrant,
the Fania All-Stars,
Television,
Bill Wells,
Jawbox,
Magazine,
The Skatalites,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Neon Judgement,
Roxette,
Skriet,
Lou Christie,
Derrick Morgan,
Mad Mike,
June Days,
Camouflage,
The Gap Band,
Danielle Patucci,
Kerrie Biddell,
Quantec,
The Names,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Pretty Things,
Deepchord,
Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti.
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.