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 Pakistan and from Accra.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 theremin 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 Duran Duran to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Lakeside. All the underground hits.
All Grauzone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy Collins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unwound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Wyatt,
the Swans,
B.T. Express,
Lee Hazlewood,
Procol Harum,
The Beau Brummels,
Minny Pops,
Ludus,
X-101,
Kerri Chandler,
Rotary Connection,
The Litter,
Cecil Taylor,
Mary Jane Girls,
Neil Young,
Crooked Eye,
Alison Limerick,
The Five Americans,
cv313,
The Names,
Sixth Finger,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Adolescents,
Public Image Ltd.,
Piero Umiliani,
Hot Snakes,
Bauhaus,
Quando Quango,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bill Near,
The Doors,
Eden Ahbez,
The Skatalites,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Das Ding,
Jandek,
The Sound,
Morten Harket,
Liliput,
Nation of Ulysses,
Rekid,
The Dave Clark Five,
Dorothy Ashby,
Gang Gang Dance,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Mojo Men,
Derrick Morgan,
Clear Light,
Alice Coltrane,
Intrusion,
Tommy Roe,
Charles Mingus,
Malaria!,
Cheater Slicks,
The Leaves,
Man Parrish,
Pole,
Gil Scott Heron,
Main Source,
Youth Brigade,
Chris & Cosey,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.