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 Mali and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Delta 5 to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Pharoah Sanders. All the underground hits.
All Rosa Yemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Qualms 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
James Chance & The Contortions,
Anakelly,
Kool Moe Dee,
Swell Maps,
Accadde A,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Erasure,
Minor Threat,
UT,
The Dead C,
Darondo,
the Normal,
The New Christs,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Tomorrow,
Altered Images,
Man Parrish,
X-101,
Johnny Clarke,
Marvin Gaye,
Funky Four + One,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Oblivians,
Metal Thangz,
Groovy Waters,
Pierre Henry,
Thee Headcoats,
The Cure,
Ronnie Foster,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Pussy Galore,
Man Eating Sloth,
kango's stein massive,
Television Personalities,
The Pop Group,
Sixth Finger,
Visage,
Barbara Tucker,
The Kinks,
Alice Coltrane,
The Evens,
Hardrive,
Boredoms,
The Victims,
Sound Behaviour,
Bizarre Inc.,
June Days,
Albert Ayler,
Malaria!,
Moebius,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Ohio Players,
Aswad,
Nick Fraelich,
Bob Dylan,
Todd Terry,
Patti Smith,
Bill Near,
Ossler,
U.S. Maple,
Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & 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.