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 Vietnam and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the guitar 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 Rufus Thomas to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Deepchord. All the underground hits.
All PIL tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sparks 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a One Last Wish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Livin' Joy,
Anthony Braxton,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Kerri Chandler,
Todd Terry,
Crispian St. Peters,
Japan,
Bush Tetras,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Mojo Men,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
X-102,
the Sonics,
Eric Dolphy,
The Monochrome Set,
The Trojans,
Porter Ricks,
Y Pants,
FM Einheit,
Yellowson,
Ornette Coleman,
Delon & Dalcan,
Parry Music,
DJ Style,
The Neon Judgement,
Marmalade,
New Order,
Das Ding,
Peter & Gordon,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Fatback Band,
Traffic Nightmare,
Slick Rick,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Moby Grape,
Johnny Osbourne,
Maleditus Sound,
Danielle Patucci,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Gories,
Magazine,
Kool Moe Dee,
Flash Fearless,
The Blackbyrds,
Barclay James Harvest,
Trumans Water,
Jacob Miller,
Eli Mardock,
R.M.O.,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Gladiators,
Harpers Bizarre,
MC5,
June Days,
Kurtis Blow,
Organ,
Mandrill,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Dawn Penn,
Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth.
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.