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 Antigua and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Beijing.
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 Sun City Girls to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All China Crisis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terrestrial Tones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rites of Spring record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mantronix,
Rekid,
Black Flag,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
10cc,
Idris Muhammad,
Delta 5,
Camberwell Now,
Stetsasonic,
Marine Girls,
The Smiths,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Slackers,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Groovy Waters,
Juan Atkins,
Quando Quango,
Minutemen,
Nas,
ABC,
DJ Style,
Warsaw,
Scratch Acid,
Aswad,
Franke,
Mark Hollis,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
JFA,
Sun Ra,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Erasure,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sonny Sharrock,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
the Human League,
The Last Poets,
Deadbeat,
cv313,
The Fall,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Stooges,
Negative Approach,
Procol Harum,
Wings,
Circle Jerks,
Cal Tjader,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Janne Schatter,
John Holt,
Pet Shop Boys,
Pierre Henry,
Soul Sonic Force,
Japan,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Slits,
Vladislav Delay,
Glenn Branca,
Bush Tetras,
The Raincoats,
The Mighty Diamonds,
One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish.
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.