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 St Lucia and from Tokyo.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Sun Ra Arkestra to the rap 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 The Pretty Things. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bluetip 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 chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Motorama record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sly & The Family Stone,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Mr. Review,
La Düsseldorf,
The Red Krayola,
The Real Kids,
Jacob Miller,
Yaz,
Simply Red,
The Move,
Smog,
The Techniques,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Rites of Spring,
Joyce Sims,
Grauzone,
Scion,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Brothers Johnson,
Juan Atkins,
Neil Young,
Joey Negro,
Scott Walker,
Clear Light,
Dennis Brown,
Brand Nubian,
DJ Sneak,
Malaria!,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
D'Angelo,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Sarah Menescal,
The Gap Band,
Terry Callier,
Cal Tjader,
Excepter,
The Dave Clark Five,
Eurythmics,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Qualms,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Echospace,
Skaos,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Hardrive,
Negative Approach,
Fugazi,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Pagans,
Bootsy Collins,
Warsaw,
Reagan Youth,
Essential Logic,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Sonics,
Jandek,
The Sound,
The Zeros,
Flamin' Groovies,
Cybotron, Cybotron, Cybotron, Cybotron.
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.