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 Croatia and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar 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 Main Source to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Moody Blues. All the underground hits.
All Blake Baxter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visage record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moody Blues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Gabor Szabo,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Dorothy Ashby,
F. McDonald,
Average White Band,
Lungfish,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Wake,
The Cramps,
L. Decosne,
Buzzcocks,
Zero Boys,
Alton Ellis,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Neon Judgement,
The Pretty Things,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Human League,
Derrick Morgan,
Organ,
Los Fastidios,
Warsaw,
Symarip,
Animal Collective,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Albert Ayler,
The Moleskins,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
U.S. Maple,
Todd Terry,
Cybotron,
Alphaville,
Joe Smooth,
Soul II Soul,
Quantec,
Nation of Ulysses,
Matthew Halsall,
ABC,
Black Pus,
Todd Rundgren,
Ituana,
Tropical Tobacco,
Rosa Yemen,
London Community Gospel Choir,
LL Cool J,
David Axelrod,
Althea and Donna,
Kaleidoscope,
Soft Cell,
Marshall Jefferson,
Silicon Teens,
Crooked Eye,
Dead Boys,
Fugazi,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
World's Most,
Urselle,
T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L..
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.