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 Sudan and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 linndrum 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All Half Japanese tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ajijia Myrayebe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Terry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
Aural Exciters,
Lou Reed,
The Grass Roots,
James White and The Blacks,
The Seeds,
Mr. Review,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
John Holt,
Girls At Our Best!,
Soul Sonic Force,
Lucky Dragons,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Graham Central Station,
Jandek,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Invisible,
A Certain Ratio,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Fatback Band,
Lalann,
The Fire Engines,
Basic Channel,
Cybotron,
T. Rex,
the Association,
Gang of Four,
U.S. Maple,
Zero Boys,
Sex Pistols,
Pole,
Freddie Wadling,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Brick,
Crooked Eye,
Marcia Griffiths,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
the Soft Cell,
Echospace,
David Bowie,
Popol Vuh,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Main Source,
Spoonie Gee,
Funkadelic,
JFA,
Swans,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Roger Hodgson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The J.B.'s,
Sarah Menescal,
Darondo,
The Barracudas,
The Human League,
Inner City,
Lakeside,
Monolake,
The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites.
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.