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 Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the guitar 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 Marine Girls to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 June of 44. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kool Moe Dee record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dennis Brown record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Kayak,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Dirtbombs,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Desert Stars,
Heaven 17,
Pole,
Livin' Joy,
Amazonics,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Donny Hathaway,
Reuben Wilson,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Howard Jones,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
ABC,
Marshall Jefferson,
DJ Sneak,
Country Teasers,
Rosa Yemen,
The J.B.'s,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Duran Duran,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
La Düsseldorf,
Altered Images,
The Monochrome Set,
China Crisis,
Aural Exciters,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Pop Group,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Detroit Cobras,
Yellowson,
Bad Manners,
the Sonics,
Sonny Sharrock,
UT,
Los Fastidios,
Fear,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Kinks,
Rhythm & Sound,
Unrelated Segments,
Juan Atkins,
Subhumans,
Hasil Adkins,
Jeff Lynne,
The Move,
The Mojo Men,
Niagra,
Quadrant,
Pere Ubu,
The Invisible,
Nirvana,
X-101,
Sam Rivers,
Spandau Ballet,
Albert Ayler,
These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls.
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.