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 Brazil and from Philadelphia.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Guru Guru to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 B.T. Express. All the underground hits.
All Jandek tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Image Ltd. 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liliput,
Peter & Gordon,
Judy Mowatt,
Crime,
Rosa Yemen,
K-Klass,
The Neon Judgement,
Arthur Verocai,
Simply Red,
Altered Images,
Ronan,
Minor Threat,
Tres Demented,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Deakin,
Donald Byrd,
Drexciya,
The Grass Roots,
Aloha Tigers,
Ornette Coleman,
Archie Shepp,
Lou Christie,
The Moleskins,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Animal Collective,
Electric Prunes,
Joensuu 1685,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Jacques Brel,
The J.B.'s,
10cc,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Popol Vuh,
Gang of Four,
Eli Mardock,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Standells,
Suicide,
Tommy Roe,
Minutemen,
Severed Heads,
The United States of America,
Intrusion,
the Bar-Kays,
Alice Coltrane,
Charles Mingus,
Nas,
Soul II Soul,
Boz Scaggs,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Zeros,
Index,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Sparks,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Rekid,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ultra Naté,
The Gories,
D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo.
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.