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 Mauritius and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe 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 Richard Hell and the Voidoids to the electroclash 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 Agitation Free. All the underground hits.
All Michelle Simonal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Beasts of Bourbon 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sly & The Family Stone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxy Music,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Happenings,
Bobby Sherman,
Chrome,
Easy Going,
Charles Mingus,
Tommy Roe,
Fatback Band,
Alison Limerick,
Zapp,
Michelle Simonal,
Wally Richardson,
Harmonia,
Clear Light,
The Angels of Light,
Drexciya,
Scientists,
cv313,
Todd Rundgren,
Kas Product,
Tim Buckley,
H. Thieme,
The Velvet Underground,
Half Japanese,
Matthew Bourne,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Todd Terry,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Aaron Thompson,
The Fall,
Dead Boys,
The Durutti Column,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Chris Corsano,
Mantronix,
Peter & Gordon,
Flash Fearless,
Gichy Dan,
EPMD,
Liliput,
The Beau Brummels,
Brand Nubian,
Index,
Franke,
Infiniti,
Grey Daturas,
Eddi Front,
China Crisis,
Anakelly,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Popol Vuh,
Massinfluence,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Au Pairs,
48th St. Collective,
Eric B and Rakim,
LL Cool J,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
World's Most,
the Normal, the Normal, the Normal, the Normal.
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.