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 Korea North and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the 808 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 Procol Harum to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Hot Snakes. All the underground hits.
All Derrick Morgan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Velvet Underground record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pantaleimon,
Radiohead,
Gichy Dan,
Grey Daturas,
Jawbox,
Sarah Menescal,
Moebius,
Section 25,
ABC,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Japan,
Brass Construction,
Prince Buster,
Interpol,
Wolf Eyes,
Soft Machine,
Au Pairs,
Joey Negro,
the Bar-Kays,
The Evens,
JFA,
Oneida,
Anthony Braxton,
James White and The Blacks,
Bauhaus,
Scott Walker,
Q and Not U,
Bootsy Collins,
The Standells,
Gil Scott Heron,
Gerry Rafferty,
Pole,
Suicide,
Ultimate Spinach,
Camberwell Now,
Moby Grape,
Delta 5,
Funky Four + One,
The Red Krayola,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Icehouse,
The Angels of Light,
Saccharine Trust,
Harmonia,
The Monochrome Set,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Echospace,
Angry Samoans,
Half Japanese,
Y Pants,
David Axelrod,
Quantec,
Cecil Taylor,
The Dead C,
Lee Hazlewood,
UT,
Agitation Free,
Bluetip,
The Remains,
Tubeway Army,
The Mummies,
Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz.
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.