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 Rwanda and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Sao Paulo.
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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The J.B.'s to the disco 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 Strawberry Alarm Clock. All the underground hits.
All Warren Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mighty Diamonds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Intrusion,
Warren Ellis,
the Fania All-Stars,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Yaz,
Cybotron,
the Normal,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Rapeman,
Gichy Dan,
David Bowie,
the Swans,
Deepchord,
Royal Trux,
The Gap Band,
Joe Smooth,
Sonny Sharrock,
Japan,
New York Dolls,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Animal Collective,
Lower 48,
Lou Reed,
Sight & Sound,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Red Krayola,
Hot Snakes,
Oneida,
Tubeway Army,
Black Sheep,
Todd Rundgren,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Robert Wyatt,
Suburban Knight,
John Holt,
Tears for Fears,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sugar Minott,
X-Ray Spex,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Oblivians,
The Monochrome Set,
The Young Rascals,
Jandek,
Chris & Cosey,
The Happenings,
Nirvana,
Ralphi Rosario,
Siglo XX,
This Heat,
The Blues Magoos,
Eli Mardock,
The Dave Clark Five,
Camouflage,
Deakin,
Dorothy Ashby,
Graham Central Station,
Eden Ahbez,
Wire,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.