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 Kazakhstan and from Houston.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Byron Stingily to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 World's Most. All the underground hits.
All Fear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Evens record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Suicide,
Skaos,
the Swans,
Josef K,
Yellowson,
48th St. Collective,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sparks,
John Lydon,
Eric Copeland,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Human League,
Crispian St. Peters,
John Foxx,
The Sonics,
Stereo Dub,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Amazonics,
Morten Harket,
The Music Machine,
June of 44,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Eli Mardock,
The Gories,
The Birthday Party,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Peter & Gordon,
Kevin Saunderson,
Agent Orange,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Nick Fraelich,
Wings,
Chris & Cosey,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Gun Club,
Letta Mbulu,
Sight & Sound,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Minutemen,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Spandau Ballet,
Altered Images,
H. Thieme,
John Cale,
Rod Modell,
Porter Ricks,
John Coltrane,
A Certain Ratio,
The Alarm Clocks,
Derrick Morgan,
Icehouse,
Main Source,
Sixth Finger,
Schoolly D,
Soulsonic Force,
The Slackers,
Electric Light Orchestra,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Hasil Adkins,
MC5,
X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex.
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.