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 Macedonia and from Glasgow.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
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 Rotary Connection to the rock 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 New York Dolls. All the underground hits.
All The Cowsills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Doors record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Techniques,
Godley & Creme,
Blossom Toes,
The Moleskins,
The Buckinghams,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Offenders,
Marine Girls,
Sound Behaviour,
Flash Fearless,
Brothers Johnson,
Deepchord,
Lyres,
Trumans Water,
Circle Jerks,
Outsiders,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Scan 7,
Eden Ahbez,
the Sonics,
Tom Boy,
Angry Samoans,
Dawn Penn,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Eric B and Rakim,
Section 25,
Hardrive,
Prince Buster,
Sandy B,
Chrome,
Soul II Soul,
Hasil Adkins,
Neu!,
Average White Band,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sällskapet,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Byron Stingily,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Names,
Royal Trux,
Intrusion,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Peter & Gordon,
Aswad,
Todd Terry,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Birthday Party,
Japan,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Roxy Music,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Public Image Ltd.,
Moby Grape,
Soft Machine,
Bob Dylan,
Dark Day,
Joy Division,
The Shadows of Knight,
Scrapy,
Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby.
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.