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 Nigeria and from Woodstock.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Crime to the jazz 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 Swell Maps. All the underground hits.
All The Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Carl Craig record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blues Magoos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Hutcherson,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Rakim,
Japan,
Ken Boothe,
The Gap Band,
Erykah Badu,
Negative Approach,
Soulsonic Force,
Tim Buckley,
Ossler,
Todd Rundgren,
Second Layer,
Fugazi,
Gastr Del Sol,
Boogie Down Productions,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
H. Thieme,
The Velvet Underground,
Alphaville,
Procol Harum,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Neon Judgement,
Scan 7,
The Cure,
Iggy Pop,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Yazoo,
The Standells,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Barracudas,
The Alarm Clocks,
Flamin' Groovies,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Nils Olav,
Monolake,
Archie Shepp,
Howard Jones,
Sandy B,
The Techniques,
Metal Thangz,
Rod Modell,
Country Teasers,
The Fuzztones,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Graham Central Station,
the Slits,
Sister Nancy,
Main Source,
Cheater Slicks,
Ronan,
The Pretty Things,
Cameo,
Stiv Bators,
Los Fastidios,
Urselle,
Tears for Fears,
The Mojo Men,
The Slits,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Vainqueur,
the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.
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.