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 Kazakhstan and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Fluxion to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Nik Kershaw. All the underground hits.
All Dorothy Ashby tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bauhaus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arcadia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash,
The Stooges,
Fela Kuti,
Procol Harum,
the Association,
Sonic Youth,
Rites of Spring,
The Golliwogs,
Skaos,
Roxy Music,
Sixth Finger,
The Misunderstood,
Nas,
Zapp,
Eve St. Jones,
cv313,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Swell Maps,
Youth Brigade,
Don Cherry,
Blake Baxter,
The J.B.'s,
Aaron Thompson,
Von Mondo,
Rekid,
Leonard Cohen,
Inner City,
Radiohead,
Sparks,
Talk Talk,
MC5,
Idris Muhammad,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Remains,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Scan 7,
The Offenders,
Neil Young,
Skarface,
Newcleus,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ponytail,
Hashim,
Kool Moe Dee,
Quadrant,
Black Bananas,
Brothers Johnson,
10cc,
Bauhaus,
Vainqueur,
Cybotron,
Peter and Kerry,
Trumans Water,
The Gories,
Kas Product,
The Wake,
The Monochrome Set,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Faust,
Steve Hackett,
the Germs,
Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan.
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.