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 Fiji and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the sitar 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 Camberwell Now to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Gabor Szabo. All the underground hits.
All T.S.O.L. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terror Squad Feat. Camron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Vogues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fluxion,
Frankie Knuckles,
Massinfluence,
The Leaves,
X-101,
Tom Boy,
LL Cool J,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Slick Rick,
Groovy Waters,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Junior Murvin,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Make Up,
Soul II Soul,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
John Cale,
One Last Wish,
Dennis Brown,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Doors,
Aural Exciters,
Kool Moe Dee,
kango's stein massive,
Jimmy McGriff,
Janne Schatter,
Severed Heads,
Kurtis Blow,
Arab on Radar,
Cecil Taylor,
Sugar Minott,
Whodini,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Pretty Things,
Roxy Music,
Drexciya,
Gang of Four,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Ohio Players,
Amon Düül,
Lungfish,
Masters at Work,
The Monks,
The Monochrome Set,
Brothers Johnson,
Kenny Larkin,
Bush Tetras,
Lalo Schifrin,
Television,
Moby Grape,
This Heat,
The Velvet Underground,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Second Layer,
Todd Rundgren,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Cymande,
Al Stewart,
Matthew Bourne,
Essential Logic,
Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe.
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.