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 Samoa and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 10cc 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 Country Teasers. All the underground hits.
All Deakin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lee Hazlewood 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Axelrod record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Brass Construction,
Model 500,
Radiohead,
Sun City Girls,
Los Fastidios,
Ultimate Spinach,
June of 44,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Soft Cell,
Black Pus,
The Monks,
Nils Olav,
Al Stewart,
Jerry's Kids,
The Dirtbombs,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Wasted Youth,
Theoretical Girls,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Spoonie Gee,
The Pretty Things,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Deadbeat,
KRS-One,
The Dead C,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Searchers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Scratch Acid,
Sonic Youth,
Iggy Pop,
cv313,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Unrelated Segments,
Bang On A Can,
The Evens,
Porter Ricks,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sun Ra,
Tubeway Army,
Boredoms,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Aural Exciters,
Cecil Taylor,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Mark Hollis,
Scrapy,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Gerry Rafferty,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Five Americans,
The Trojans,
Wire,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Jandek,
X-102,
Ohio Players,
Motorama,
the Association,
Donald Byrd,
Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter.
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.