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 Latvia and from Toronto.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Associates to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Sun Ra. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Byrd tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pagans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Order record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeru the Damaja,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Shuggie Otis,
The Monochrome Set,
Lower 48,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Royal Trux,
Stockholm Monsters,
Roxy Music,
Faraquet,
Visage,
Delta 5,
Camberwell Now,
Smog,
Barry Ungar,
Gang of Four,
Dave Gahan,
Altered Images,
T.S.O.L.,
The Toasters,
Duran Duran,
Organ,
Scratch Acid,
Hot Snakes,
Make Up,
Arcadia,
Darondo,
Pulsallama,
Joe Smooth,
Eden Ahbez,
Mantronix,
Agitation Free,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Moebius,
Ituana,
Soul Sonic Force,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Grass Roots,
Country Teasers,
Brass Construction,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Black Dice,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Moleskins,
David Axelrod,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Graham Central Station,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Quadrant,
Yusef Lateef,
DJ Style,
Glenn Branca,
Von Mondo,
Bauhaus,
John Cale,
Andrew Hill,
Marc Almond,
X-Ray Spex,
Kerri Chandler,
The Seeds,
Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music.
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.