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 Yemen and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 Columbus and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin 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 Colin Newman to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Be Bop Deluxe. All the underground hits.
All Q and Not U tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter and Kerry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boogie Down Productions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Mark Hollis,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Andrew Hill,
Fatback Band,
Max Romeo,
Chrome,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Gap Band,
Kerri Chandler,
Tres Demented,
Yaz,
Alice Coltrane,
The Real Kids,
Zapp,
Johnny Osbourne,
Stiv Bators,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Aswad,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Leonard Cohen,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Porter Ricks,
Talk Talk,
Y Pants,
Fugazi,
Gong,
Angry Samoans,
Big Daddy Kane,
Dorothy Ashby,
Intrusion,
Pierre Henry,
China Crisis,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Jeff Mills,
Average White Band,
Sällskapet,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Rotary Connection,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Massinfluence,
Heaven 17,
Matthew Halsall,
Ponytail,
Flipper,
John Coltrane,
Crispy Ambulance,
Public Enemy,
48th St. Collective,
The New Christs,
Toni Rubio,
The Skatalites,
Roxette,
The Cure,
The Smoke,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants.
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.