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 United Kingdom and from Portland.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the sitar 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 Groovy Waters to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Charles Mingus. All the underground hits.
All Lindisfarne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every K-Klass record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gabor Szabo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Image Ltd.,
The Velvet Underground,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Remains,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Mandrill,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Lakeside,
The J.B.'s,
Curtis Mayfield,
Ronnie Foster,
Newcleus,
Talk Talk,
The Cure,
kango's stein massive,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Model 500,
The Knickerbockers,
OOIOO,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Lightning Bolt,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Radio Birdman,
FM Einheit,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pere Ubu,
The Dave Clark Five,
Basic Channel,
Sandy B,
The Cramps,
Gang of Four,
Bush Tetras,
The Offenders,
Aaron Thompson,
The Move,
Peter & Gordon,
Liliput,
Funky Four + One,
Ten City,
John Holt,
Second Layer,
Chrome,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Stetsasonic,
Joy Division,
Rites of Spring,
Interpol,
The Cowsills,
Lou Reed,
Mars,
The Stooges,
Wings,
Roger Hodgson,
Judy Mowatt,
Slave,
Silicon Teens,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Sound,
Black Bananas,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Andrew Hill,
Marc Almond,
The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites.
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.