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 Ethiopia and from Bremen.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Woodstock.
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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Amazonics to the punk 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 Larry & the Blue Notes. All the underground hits.
All Piero Umiliani tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Index record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Max Romeo,
Das Ding,
These Immortal Souls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Connie Case,
Half Japanese,
Yellowson,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Circle Jerks,
Skriet,
Blossom Toes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Urselle,
The Neon Judgement,
Roxette,
Erasure,
Jacques Brel,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Lebanon Hanover,
Oblivians,
Tres Demented,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Hoover,
Joe Finger,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
In Retrospect,
Fear,
T.S.O.L.,
Josef K,
Sonic Youth,
Zapp,
Radiohead,
Pantaleimon,
Organ,
Terrestrial Tones,
Erykah Badu,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Reagan Youth,
The Offenders,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ten City,
Jerry's Kids,
Sister Nancy,
Marmalade,
Blancmange,
Vladislav Delay,
Archie Shepp,
Peter & Gordon,
Nico,
Massinfluence,
One Last Wish,
Magma,
The Shadows of Knight,
Brass Construction,
Crispy Ambulance,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Niagra,
The Remains,
The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers.
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.