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 Bahrain and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Gories to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Jimmy McGriff. All the underground hits.
All Todd Rundgren tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Babytalk 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Raincoats,
Intrusion,
The Durutti Column,
Niagra,
Magazine,
Gastr Del Sol,
Joe Finger,
Avey Tare,
The Beau Brummels,
Iggy Pop,
Yazoo,
Matthew Halsall,
10cc,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Victims,
Chris Corsano,
Swell Maps,
Terry Callier,
World's Most,
Gregory Isaacs,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Moss Icon,
Loose Ends,
Curtis Mayfield,
Echospace,
Massinfluence,
Barbara Tucker,
Tres Demented,
Bronski Beat,
Sex Pistols,
T.S.O.L.,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Interpol,
Aaron Thompson,
Unrelated Segments,
Yusef Lateef,
The Motions,
Gang of Four,
Tim Buckley,
Frankie Knuckles,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Erykah Badu,
Sam Rivers,
Stereo Dub,
Gong,
Slick Rick,
The Detroit Cobras,
Accadde A,
Roxy Music,
Faraquet,
Goldenarms,
The Slackers,
Traffic Nightmare,
Hardrive,
The J.B.'s,
Cymande,
Mr. Review,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Au Pairs,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Dual Sessions,
The Flesh Eaters, The Flesh Eaters, The Flesh Eaters, The Flesh Eaters.
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.