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 Australia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro 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 Maleditus Sound 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 Gabor Szabo. All the underground hits.
All Kings Of Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gabor Szabo 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agent Orange record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
June of 44,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Mo-Dettes,
Main Source,
Echospace,
Unrelated Segments,
a-ha,
Kas Product,
Basic Channel,
Ultravox,
Carl Craig,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Crispian St. Peters,
the Human League,
Q and Not U,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Walker Brothers,
Joe Smooth,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Invisible,
The Cosmic Jokers,
CMW,
Stockholm Monsters,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Zeros,
Pantaleimon,
Black Sheep,
Half Japanese,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Flash Fearless,
Susan Cadogan,
Johnny Osbourne,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Mummies,
Archie Shepp,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Rakim,
Wolf Eyes,
Index,
Visage,
Crash Course in Science,
the Swans,
Ponytail,
FM Einheit,
Shoche,
Mandrill,
Tubeway Army,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The United States of America,
8 Eyed Spy,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Stereo Dub,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Swans,
Tres Demented,
Mad Mike,
Panda Bear,
Soft Machine,
Peter & Gordon,
Marshall Jefferson,
Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station.
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.