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 Tonga and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the oboe 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 Pole to the rap 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 The Mummies. All the underground hits.
All the Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thee Headcoats record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
The Litter,
Lucky Dragons,
Crooked Eye,
The Blackbyrds,
The Blues Magoos,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Offenders,
New Age Steppers,
Los Fastidios,
Tres Demented,
Niagra,
JFA,
Erykah Badu,
Theoretical Girls,
The Selecter,
Crispy Ambulance,
Radiopuhelimet,
Nirvana,
The Young Rascals,
Amon Düül,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Kurtis Blow,
Depeche Mode,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lou Reed,
Stereo Dub,
Guru Guru,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Don Cherry,
The Moody Blues,
The Skatalites,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Hasil Adkins,
Scott Walker,
Jimmy McGriff,
Neil Young,
Blossom Toes,
Groovy Waters,
48th St. Collective,
Parry Music,
Harry Pussy,
Lalann,
Rekid,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Real Kids,
Eden Ahbez,
Aaron Thompson,
The Divine Comedy,
X-102,
The Cosmic Jokers,
T. Rex,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mantronix,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bad Manners,
Robert Görl,
Mo-Dettes,
The Sonics,
The Count Five, The Count Five, The Count Five, The Count Five.
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.