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 Bolivia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the mellotron 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 T.S.O.L. to the crunk 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 Davy DMX. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every a-ha 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amazonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Model 500,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Tim Buckley,
Lou Reed,
Agitation Free,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Dead Boys,
DJ Style,
The Cure,
Man Parrish,
Scratch Acid,
Ultravox,
the Bar-Kays,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Arcadia,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Kinks,
The J.B.'s,
Kool Moe Dee,
Television Personalities,
Morten Harket,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Stiv Bators,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Letta Mbulu,
Angry Samoans,
Massinfluence,
The Blues Magoos,
Neil Young,
The Alarm Clocks,
Bang On A Can,
Gabor Szabo,
Monks,
Hot Snakes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Howard Jones,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Audionom,
Alphaville,
Sister Nancy,
Bobby Sherman,
Tommy Roe,
The Invisible,
The Zeros,
Girls At Our Best!,
Fad Gadget,
Marine Girls,
The Moody Blues,
The Wake,
Eurythmics,
The Happenings,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Prince Buster,
Yaz,
Al Stewart,
Anthony Braxton,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Zapp,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones.
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.