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 Lille.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Bob Dylan to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All Excepter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Parry Music record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Knickerbockers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Starr,
Reagan Youth,
Chris Corsano,
The Wake,
Josef K,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Zero Boys,
The Evens,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Gun Club,
Drive Like Jehu,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Isaac Hayes,
Slick Rick,
John Holt,
Bobby Byrd,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Warsaw,
T. Rex,
Unrelated Segments,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Joensuu 1685,
Soft Machine,
DJ Sneak,
Robert Wyatt,
The Cramps,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Young Rascals,
Donald Byrd,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Panda Bear,
Schoolly D,
Minny Pops,
Desert Stars,
Smog,
Black Pus,
Harmonia,
Goldenarms,
Ultravox,
The Gladiators,
Amon Düül,
Black Moon,
Lower 48,
Magazine,
Patti Smith,
Animal Collective,
R.M.O.,
Skaos,
The American Breed,
The Selecter,
Sound Behaviour,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Tommy Roe,
Newcleus,
Sandy B,
The Tremeloes,
The Trojans,
Sly & The Family Stone,
John Foxx,
Monks,
Joy Division,
Spoonie Gee,
Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman.
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.