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 Netherlands and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Calgary.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the mellotron 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 MC5 to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Scott Walker. All the underground hits.
All Moss Icon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minor Threat 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Soft Cell,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Rotary Connection,
EPMD,
Sight & Sound,
Jacob Miller,
Donald Byrd,
Rod Modell,
Roger Hodgson,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lightning Bolt,
Camberwell Now,
Warren Ellis,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Archie Shepp,
Sexual Harrassment,
A Certain Ratio,
Joe Finger,
Hasil Adkins,
Panda Bear,
Dave Gahan,
The Selecter,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Porter Ricks,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Leaves,
Joe Smooth,
the Slits,
Junior Murvin,
Cecil Taylor,
The Fortunes,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Kevin Saunderson,
Reagan Youth,
Babytalk,
Erykah Badu,
Funkadelic,
Darondo,
Vladislav Delay,
Arcadia,
Jeff Lynne,
Supertramp,
kango's stein massive,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Yellowson,
Tommy Roe,
The Cure,
Ossler,
Alton Ellis,
Kool Moe Dee,
Vainqueur,
Ituana,
Radiohead,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Ice-T,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Eli Mardock,
Joey Negro,
Dawn Penn,
Minny Pops,
Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon.
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.