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 Libya and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 mellotron 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 Amon Düül II to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Frankie Knuckles. All the underground hits.
All The Red Krayola tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Godley & Creme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grey Daturas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Copeland,
Pierre Henry,
X-Ray Spex,
Al Stewart,
Scratch Acid,
The Young Rascals,
Reagan Youth,
The Cramps,
The Sonics,
The Trojans,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Mark Hollis,
Bob Dylan,
David Bowie,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Skatalites,
Public Image Ltd.,
Jerry's Kids,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
F. McDonald,
Ludus,
James Chance & The Contortions,
PIL,
Essential Logic,
Simply Red,
The Music Machine,
Skarface,
Derrick Morgan,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Grey Daturas,
Pet Shop Boys,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Camouflage,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Laurel Aitken,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Gregory Isaacs,
Kas Product,
Popol Vuh,
Slave,
Los Fastidios,
Joe Finger,
Minutemen,
10cc,
Unwound,
David Axelrod,
World's Most,
Peter and Kerry,
Basic Channel,
Gil Scott Heron,
Henry Cow,
Deepchord,
The Cowsills,
Country Teasers,
Y Pants,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Piero Umiliani,
Soul Sonic Force,
Cameo,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.