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 Portugal and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Dawn Penn to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Infiniti. All the underground hits.
All Lower 48 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Symarip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flipper,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sonny Sharrock,
Kaleidoscope,
Gabor Szabo,
Joey Negro,
Nick Fraelich,
Nils Olav,
Althea and Donna,
Flash Fearless,
Kurtis Blow,
B.T. Express,
Patti Smith,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Ken Boothe,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Wolf Eyes,
AZ,
Lyres,
Rosa Yemen,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Blues Magoos,
Dual Sessions,
Wings,
Henry Cow,
The Trojans,
Babytalk,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Erykah Badu,
Monolake,
Q65,
The Seeds,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
China Crisis,
Traffic Nightmare,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Avey Tare,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Maleditus Sound,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Golliwogs,
Von Mondo,
KRS-One,
The Young Rascals,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Slave,
Moby Grape,
Ponytail,
Toni Rubio,
Second Layer,
Crash Course in Science,
Crime,
Quantec,
Kool Moe Dee,
Blake Baxter,
Mandrill,
D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo.
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.