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 Congo and from Milan.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 sitar 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 Minutemen to the disco 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 MDC. All the underground hits.
All Carl Craig tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aswad 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lakeside,
JFA,
Archie Shepp,
Eve St. Jones,
Reagan Youth,
Kaleidoscope,
Jacob Miller,
Josef K,
Minutemen,
Quantec,
Grauzone,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Dave Gahan,
Yusef Lateef,
Delon & Dalcan,
Excepter,
Smog,
Gabor Szabo,
A Flock of Seagulls,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Half Japanese,
Can,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Real Kids,
Procol Harum,
The Saints,
ABC,
Sex Pistols,
Panda Bear,
Janne Schatter,
Boredoms,
Delta 5,
Rhythm & Sound,
Patti Smith,
Radio Birdman,
Easy Going,
Ossler,
Jeff Mills,
Roxy Music,
Scientists,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
8 Eyed Spy,
Peter & Gordon,
The Evens,
Duran Duran,
Scott Walker,
Dual Sessions,
Reuben Wilson,
Erasure,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Soft Cell,
The Dead C,
Don Cherry,
Henry Cow,
Black Moon,
Max Romeo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Blancmange,
Metal Thangz,
MC5,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Jerry's Kids,
Siglo XX,
Black Pus, Black Pus, Black Pus, Black Pus.
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.