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 Japan and from Taipei.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 sitar 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 Aural Exciters to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Graham Central Station. All the underground hits.
All Matthew Halsall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Royal Trux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Newcleus,
T.S.O.L.,
World's Most,
Unwound,
Alice Coltrane,
The Happenings,
Agitation Free,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Tom Boy,
Bang On A Can,
The Durutti Column,
Dorothy Ashby,
Bobby Womack,
Eli Mardock,
Masters at Work,
Intrusion,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Agent Orange,
The Gladiators,
Black Sheep,
Ten City,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Blues Magoos,
The Misunderstood,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Blancmange,
PIL,
Jeff Mills,
David McCallum,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sam Rivers,
Rosa Yemen,
Danielle Patucci,
Cameo,
Todd Terry,
Dennis Brown,
D'Angelo,
Stetsasonic,
Sun Ra,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Crooked Eye,
Deepchord,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Five Americans,
Fela Kuti,
Avey Tare,
Reuben Wilson,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Joe Smooth,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Howard Jones,
Erasure,
Organ,
The Velvet Underground,
Porter Ricks,
Fluxion,
Model 500,
Brass Construction,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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.