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 Thailand and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar 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 Faraquet to the funk 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 Yusef Lateef. All the underground hits.
All Dark Day 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 disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Al Stewart,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Leonard Cohen,
Flamin' Groovies,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Das Ding,
John Lydon,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Tubeway Army,
Fear,
Fluxion,
Youth Brigade,
Matthew Bourne,
Joy Division,
Swans,
Nik Kershaw,
Neu!,
Donald Byrd,
The Monks,
The Moleskins,
Smog,
Bobby Byrd,
Niagra,
Gong,
Mark Hollis,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Animal Collective,
Barrington Levy,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Iggy Pop,
The Skatalites,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Motions,
Sarah Menescal,
Pylon,
Mad Mike,
Alphaville,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Human League,
Goldenarms,
Rapeman,
Robert Wyatt,
The Happenings,
The Tremeloes,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Zeros,
Anakelly,
Symarip,
The Fugs,
Brand Nubian,
Los Fastidios,
Max Romeo,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Durutti Column,
Black Pus,
Ken Boothe,
Underground Resistance,
Khruangbin,
Black Flag,
Lalann,
Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo.
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.