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 Jamaica and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 spring reverb 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 DNA to the grime 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 Aural Exciters. All the underground hits.
All Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sly & The Family Stone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lafayette Afro Rock Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Livin' Joy,
Susan Cadogan,
Eurythmics,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bush Tetras,
Deadbeat,
Alphaville,
The Young Rascals,
The Neon Judgement,
David McCallum,
Saccharine Trust,
The Real Kids,
Easy Going,
Kaleidoscope,
Swans,
Donny Hathaway,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Negative Approach,
Toni Rubio,
Rekid,
Tubeway Army,
Henry Cow,
Grandmaster Flash,
Neu!,
Aaron Thompson,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Echospace,
Absolute Body Control,
Rod Modell,
Circle Jerks,
Unrelated Segments,
The Zeros,
Stereo Dub,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Boz Scaggs,
Letta Mbulu,
K-Klass,
The Fuzztones,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Fatback Band,
Nico,
Byron Stingily,
Rapeman,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Gap Band,
The Fall,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
B.T. Express,
Anakelly,
the Slits,
Crash Course in Science,
Juan Atkins,
The Tremeloes,
Niagra,
The Electric Prunes,
Tomorrow,
Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith.
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.