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 Romania and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
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 The Seeds to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All the Association tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kurtis Blow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Eurythmics,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Nas,
Clear Light,
Popol Vuh,
Don Cherry,
Erykah Badu,
Arab on Radar,
Colin Newman,
Josef K,
Wally Richardson,
Thompson Twins,
Scan 7,
Cameo,
Camberwell Now,
Fear,
Archie Shepp,
Matthew Halsall,
Y Pants,
Lucky Dragons,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Gories,
Zapp,
Derrick May,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Saints,
Delta 5,
Jeff Mills,
FM Einheit,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Depeche Mode,
Magma,
MC5,
Boz Scaggs,
China Crisis,
Pantaleimon,
Duran Duran,
Liliput,
Arthur Verocai,
Half Japanese,
Harpers Bizarre,
Groovy Waters,
Circle Jerks,
This Heat,
Girls At Our Best!,
Basic Channel,
Janne Schatter,
Symarip,
The Tremeloes,
The Evens,
The Last Poets,
Gong,
Mary Jane Girls,
Faraquet,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Crime,
Television,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lower 48,
Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free.
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.