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 Canada and from Salvador.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Cure to the dance 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Bar-Kays record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bizarre Inc.,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Techniques,
Eli Mardock,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Idris Muhammad,
Quadrant,
Masters at Work,
The Black Dice,
Procol Harum,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Cheater Slicks,
ABBA,
Yaz,
Camouflage,
The Beau Brummels,
New York Dolls,
Jerry's Kids,
Icehouse,
Country Joe & The Fish,
the Germs,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Magazine,
Girls At Our Best!,
Nirvana,
Flamin' Groovies,
Derrick May,
In Retrospect,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
the Slits,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Moody Blues,
The Dead C,
Mr. Review,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Rotary Connection,
Joe Smooth,
Fela Kuti,
Babytalk,
Stetsasonic,
Lee Hazlewood,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Negative Approach,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Cecil Taylor,
The Alarm Clocks,
Barrington Levy,
the Soft Cell,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ituana,
The Fall,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Black Sheep,
Scott Walker,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Pere Ubu,
Anthony Braxton,
Marshall Jefferson,
Minny Pops,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ultravox, Ultravox, Ultravox, Ultravox.
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.