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 Afghanistan and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
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 Roxette to the grime 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 Deadbeat. All the underground hits.
All Leonard Cohen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Bananas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yusef Lateef record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ossler,
Swans,
Radio Birdman,
8 Eyed Spy,
10cc,
Derrick May,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Nick Fraelich,
cv313,
Procol Harum,
Monolake,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Malaria!,
Leonard Cohen,
Agitation Free,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Section 25,
Soft Machine,
Cal Tjader,
Smog,
Eric Copeland,
Essential Logic,
Lou Christie,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Massinfluence,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bill Wells,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Buckinghams,
Aswad,
Rites of Spring,
The Smoke,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Eric B and Rakim,
Los Fastidios,
Sugar Minott,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Panda Bear,
Youth Brigade,
Royal Trux,
Lyres,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Japan,
Boogie Down Productions,
Piero Umiliani,
Marshall Jefferson,
Crispy Ambulance,
Roxette,
Von Mondo,
D'Angelo,
Underground Resistance,
Circle Jerks,
Lou Reed,
Icehouse,
Moebius,
Tomorrow,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Fall,
Gil Scott Heron,
Goldenarms,
Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers.
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.