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 Nepal and from Lille.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 sitar 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 Robert Wyatt to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Symarip. All the underground hits.
All The Mighty Diamonds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Art Ensemble Of Chicago record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Toni Rubio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Silicon Teens,
Eddi Front,
Lakeside,
Anthony Braxton,
June of 44,
Ten City,
Eyeless In Gaza,
ABC,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sonny Sharrock,
Young Marble Giants,
Neu!,
Amazonics,
Clear Light,
X-101,
Soft Cell,
Country Teasers,
Bob Dylan,
Suburban Knight,
Cybotron,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Wally Richardson,
Hoover,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Sound,
New York Dolls,
Shoche,
The Count Five,
David Bowie,
the Soft Cell,
James White and The Blacks,
The Buckinghams,
Fela Kuti,
Flash Fearless,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Gories,
Basic Channel,
Fugazi,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Robert Görl,
Masters at Work,
Stereo Dub,
Audionom,
Bizarre Inc.,
Isaac Hayes,
Adolescents,
The Pretty Things,
Throbbing Gristle,
Skriet,
T. Rex,
Moss Icon,
The Searchers,
Barrington Levy,
Jimmy McGriff,
Matthew Halsall,
ABBA,
The Modern Lovers,
Quadrant,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Gabor Szabo,
June Days,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near.
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.