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 Kosovo 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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Quadrant to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Visage. All the underground hits.
All Roger Hodgson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cosmic Jokers 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Coltrane,
Radiohead,
Blake Baxter,
Simply Red,
Deadbeat,
Symarip,
Nas,
Moss Icon,
June of 44,
Althea and Donna,
Anthony Braxton,
Al Stewart,
Lee Hazlewood,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Modern Lovers,
Reagan Youth,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Robert Wyatt,
Sun Ra,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Wake,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Rakim,
Skaos,
OOIOO,
The Star Department,
The Golliwogs,
Ronnie Foster,
Radio Birdman,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Todd Rundgren,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Second Layer,
Kas Product,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
X-Ray Spex,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tomorrow,
Amon Düül II,
The Index,
Bad Manners,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Maurizio,
Piero Umiliani,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sister Nancy,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Buzzcocks,
Unwound,
Lindisfarne,
D'Angelo,
Accadde A,
Oblivians,
Lightning Bolt,
Black Flag,
The Cure,
Lucky Dragons,
Stockholm Monsters,
Scientists,
Jandek,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Pet Shop Boys,
Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson.
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.