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 Honduras and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Second Layer to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 J.B.'s. All the underground hits.
All Animal Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Flesh Eaters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Index,
Wire,
Index,
The Wake,
The Motions,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Aloha Tigers,
Sam Rivers,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Bob Dylan,
Yazoo,
Gong,
Ronan,
X-Ray Spex,
The Toasters,
Charles Mingus,
Whodini,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
James White and The Blacks,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Flash Fearless,
Main Source,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Babytalk,
Gastr Del Sol,
Danielle Patucci,
The Sound,
Ultra Naté,
Warsaw,
Lower 48,
The Golliwogs,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Echospace,
Mars,
Youth Brigade,
Aswad,
Chris Corsano,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Soulsonic Force,
Donald Byrd,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Yellowson,
The Gun Club,
Anakelly,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sight & Sound,
Derrick Morgan,
Fluxion,
Pagans,
The Fugs,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Ten City,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Matthew Halsall,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Pulsallama,
Byron Stingily,
Lungfish,
Ultimate Spinach,
Fatback Band,
DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style.
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.