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 Germany and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 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 Peter & Gordon to the disco 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 Yazoo. All the underground hits.
All Nirvana tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Archie Shepp 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Germs,
Bootsy Collins,
David McCallum,
The Vogues,
Ohio Players,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Mummies,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Motorama,
FM Einheit,
Althea and Donna,
Public Enemy,
H. Thieme,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Ice-T,
Excepter,
Hardrive,
Dark Day,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Anakelly,
Bush Tetras,
Spandau Ballet,
Flamin' Groovies,
Alison Limerick,
Sarah Menescal,
Aswad,
Bobby Sherman,
D'Angelo,
Smog,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ossler,
Funky Four + One,
Moby Grape,
Eden Ahbez,
Massinfluence,
Deadbeat,
Dawn Penn,
Don Cherry,
Mantronix,
Leonard Cohen,
Janne Schatter,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Agitation Free,
Babytalk,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Skaos,
Fatback Band,
Delon & Dalcan,
John Lydon,
Young Marble Giants,
Severed Heads,
Vladislav Delay,
Sex Pistols,
Ten City,
Joe Finger,
Unrelated Segments,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Neon Judgement,
Aloha Tigers,
Boz Scaggs,
Heaven 17,
Mo-Dettes,
Bronski Beat,
Section 25, Section 25, Section 25, Section 25.
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.