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 Guinea and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
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 Sunsets and Hearts to the electroclash 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 Jerry Gold Smith. All the underground hits.
All Idris Muhammad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
Japan,
Oneida,
Cal Tjader,
Oblivians,
June Days,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Traffic Nightmare,
James White and The Blacks,
48th St. Collective,
Y Pants,
Black Bananas,
Au Pairs,
The Gap Band,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Todd Rundgren,
Essential Logic,
Scion,
Aswad,
Tim Buckley,
David Axelrod,
Inner City,
Dawn Penn,
Schoolly D,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Stockholm Monsters,
Fugazi,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Slits,
Royal Trux,
Marc Almond,
Ornette Coleman,
Amon Düül II,
Boogie Down Productions,
The New Christs,
Barbara Tucker,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Barrington Levy,
The Gories,
X-101,
Tropical Tobacco,
Laurel Aitken,
DJ Sneak,
Hoover,
Spandau Ballet,
Soft Cell,
Connie Case,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Section 25,
The Flesh Eaters,
Isaac Hayes,
The Star Department,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Be Bop Deluxe,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Tomorrow,
Boredoms,
Electric Prunes,
8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy.
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.