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 Tajikistan and from Seoul.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the 808 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the jazz 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 Loose Ends. All the underground hits.
All DeepChord presents Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Shadows of Knight 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alice Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker,
Thompson Twins,
Althea and Donna,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Youth Brigade,
Deakin,
Public Image Ltd.,
Blossom Toes,
Heaven 17,
Harmonia,
Faraquet,
10cc,
Prince Buster,
Ituana,
Pole,
New Order,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Goldenarms,
Drive Like Jehu,
Tres Demented,
Anakelly,
Negative Approach,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Happenings,
Camouflage,
Bob Dylan,
Alice Coltrane,
Royal Trux,
X-101,
The Beau Brummels,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Skaos,
Sun Ra,
Lower 48,
Pylon,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Birthday Party,
the Normal,
Make Up,
A Certain Ratio,
Brothers Johnson,
Freddie Wadling,
R.M.O.,
Gastr Del Sol,
Altered Images,
Ice-T,
U.S. Maple,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Leaves,
Joe Finger,
Shoche,
Parry Music,
Qualms,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Gang Gang Dance,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Eddi Front,
Minny Pops,
The Pretty Things,
Bush Tetras, Bush Tetras, Bush Tetras, Bush Tetras.
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.