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 Andorra and from Copenhagen.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
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 The Star Department to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Thee Headcoats. All the underground hits.
All Juan Atkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Don Cherry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultimate Spinach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Tremeloes,
Scott Walker,
Vainqueur,
Duran Duran,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sandy B,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Colin Newman,
Underground Resistance,
EPMD,
Ronan,
Mandrill,
Mo-Dettes,
Massinfluence,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Toasters,
Sonny Sharrock,
Rotary Connection,
Nirvana,
Eurythmics,
Warren Ellis,
The Happenings,
the Soft Cell,
Judy Mowatt,
Accadde A,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Adolescents,
Yazoo,
In Retrospect,
Graham Central Station,
Cecil Taylor,
June of 44,
DJ Style,
The Sonics,
The Gories,
Ohio Players,
The Gun Club,
Wolf Eyes,
Gil Scott Heron,
Public Enemy,
Dead Boys,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ponytail,
Soul II Soul,
Andrew Hill,
Make Up,
Soul Sonic Force,
X-102,
Wings,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Wire,
D'Angelo,
The Pretty Things,
Average White Band,
Model 500,
Urselle,
Eric Dolphy,
Lower 48,
Radio Birdman,
Stockholm Monsters,
Liliput,
Kayak, Kayak, Kayak, Kayak.
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.