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 Angola and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Ossler to the rock 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 Marine Girls. All the underground hits.
All Public Image Ltd. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Skatalites record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Heaven 17,
Q and Not U,
Henry Cow,
The Cowsills,
Schoolly D,
Theoretical Girls,
Second Layer,
Alison Limerick,
Animal Collective,
The Raincoats,
Essential Logic,
KRS-One,
Negative Approach,
La Düsseldorf,
10cc,
The Walker Brothers,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Cybotron,
The Tremeloes,
The Moody Blues,
Robert Hood,
Byron Stingily,
Avey Tare,
Moebius,
China Crisis,
Andrew Hill,
Make Up,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Sonics,
World's Most,
The Selecter,
Man Parrish,
Duran Duran,
Massinfluence,
Eli Mardock,
The Kinks,
Freddie Wadling,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
John Cale,
Terry Callier,
The Blues Magoos,
cv313,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Red Krayola,
Chris & Cosey,
Tropical Tobacco,
Rhythm & Sound,
Anakelly,
The Sound,
Monks,
Nick Fraelich,
Swans,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Nirvana,
Magma,
Eric B and Rakim,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Shuggie Otis,
Sight & Sound,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gichy Dan,
Bluetip, Bluetip, Bluetip, Bluetip.
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.