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 Iraq and from Columbus.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Lyon.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Technova to the jazz 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 Minor Threat. All the underground hits.
All Sarah Menescal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visage record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator 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 guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Joe Smooth,
kango's stein massive,
Pierre Henry,
Warren Ellis,
The Pop Group,
John Cale,
The Black Dice,
Severed Heads,
the Association,
Youth Brigade,
Sarah Menescal,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lower 48,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Kerrie Biddell,
Ornette Coleman,
Robert Görl,
The Barracudas,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Aaron Thompson,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Pretty Things,
Matthew Halsall,
Soft Machine,
Johnny Osbourne,
Roxette,
Hoover,
Erykah Badu,
Goldenarms,
Jeff Lynne,
The Saints,
The Litter,
Echospace,
Marvin Gaye,
The Index,
Ponytail,
Altered Images,
Funkadelic,
Brass Construction,
Eric Copeland,
The Young Rascals,
Eric Dolphy,
Bobby Sherman,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Detroit Cobras,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Whodini,
Public Image Ltd.,
Soul II Soul,
Electric Prunes,
Joensuu 1685,
Infiniti,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
48th St. Collective,
The Modern Lovers,
Sex Pistols,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Minutemen,
Terry Callier,
World's Most, World's Most, World's Most, World's Most.
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.