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 Venezuela and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 mellotron 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 Archie Shepp to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Harpers Bizarre tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Wake 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gories 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?
The United States of America,
Pierre Henry,
Scientists,
Parry Music,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Barclay James Harvest,
Eddi Front,
Pylon,
The Modern Lovers,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Knickerbockers,
Khruangbin,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Josef K,
Funky Four + One,
Infiniti,
Skarface,
Spoonie Gee,
Roger Hodgson,
Magma,
U.S. Maple,
The Stooges,
The Fire Engines,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Grandmaster Flash,
Erasure,
Barrington Levy,
The Leaves,
R.M.O.,
Howard Jones,
The Motions,
The Zeros,
Gichy Dan,
10cc,
Ultravox,
LL Cool J,
Average White Band,
Eric Dolphy,
Q and Not U,
Public Enemy,
Carl Craig,
Trumans Water,
Bluetip,
Danielle Patucci,
OOIOO,
Dawn Penn,
The Standells,
Faust,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Moody Blues,
Grey Daturas,
Robert Hood,
Black Moon,
The Human League,
Godley & Creme,
Lakeside,
Wings,
Nils Olav,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Durutti Column,
Intrusion,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Monks,
Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster.
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.