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 Yemen and from Portland.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
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 Dual Sessions to the funk 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 the Sonics. All the underground hits.
All The Moleskins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Motorama record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gang Starr record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Lou Christie,
Derrick Morgan,
Bootsy Collins,
The Dead C,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Magazine,
The Mojo Men,
Can,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
the Germs,
Prince Buster,
Scott Walker,
Bobby Sherman,
Gabor Szabo,
Sister Nancy,
Godley & Creme,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Joey Negro,
Chris & Cosey,
The Moody Blues,
Sugar Minott,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Black Dice,
The Fire Engines,
Dual Sessions,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Scientists,
Q and Not U,
The Blues Magoos,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Massinfluence,
The Happenings,
Zapp,
Technova,
Camouflage,
Gang Starr,
Morten Harket,
Unrelated Segments,
Amon Düül II,
Stereo Dub,
The Move,
La Düsseldorf,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Jawbox,
8 Eyed Spy,
John Foxx,
Todd Rundgren,
Iggy Pop,
Television Personalities,
Jimmy McGriff,
Roy Ayers,
Roger Hodgson,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lightning Bolt,
Grey Daturas,
Max Romeo,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Maleditus Sound,
Girls At Our Best!,
Steve Hackett,
Joyce Sims,
The Victims,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.