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 Guyana and from Mumbai.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Delhi.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
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 Peter & Gordon to the techno 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 Bobby Sherman. All the underground hits.
All The Standells tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erykah Badu,
L. Decosne,
Gang Starr,
Alphaville,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Neu!,
Unrelated Segments,
Chris & Cosey,
Quantec,
Groovy Waters,
Kas Product,
The Pop Group,
Franke,
Severed Heads,
The Move,
Man Parrish,
Big Daddy Kane,
Boogie Down Productions,
Kayak,
Marmalade,
Mars,
Byron Stingily,
Wolf Eyes,
Cecil Taylor,
8 Eyed Spy,
Iggy Pop,
La Düsseldorf,
Pole,
John Cale,
The Moleskins,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bobby Byrd,
X-101,
Neil Young,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sun City Girls,
The Barracudas,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Graham Central Station,
Panda Bear,
Jacob Miller,
Agent Orange,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Soft Cell,
Aloha Tigers,
Sixth Finger,
Amon Düül II,
The Vogues,
Junior Murvin,
Black Sheep,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Das Ding,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lightning Bolt,
Sparks,
Girls At Our Best!,
Cybotron,
Public Image Ltd.,
Mr. Review,
Glenn Branca,
Duran Duran,
The Sound, The Sound, The Sound, The Sound.
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.