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 Croatia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the organ 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 Scrapy to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Terry Callier. All the underground hits.
All Supertramp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Modern Lovers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a London Community Gospel Choir record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tommy Roe,
Minutemen,
Brass Construction,
Groovy Waters,
Altered Images,
Niagra,
Althea and Donna,
Johnny Osbourne,
Pierre Henry,
The Cowsills,
Lyres,
Hasil Adkins,
Zero Boys,
Ossler,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Zeros,
Mo-Dettes,
Roxette,
Bluetip,
Davy DMX,
Rekid,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
E-Dancer,
Silicon Teens,
Crime,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Lightning Bolt,
The Doors,
Talk Talk,
Godley & Creme,
Archie Shepp,
The Velvet Underground,
Swans,
The Smoke,
Shoche,
The Standells,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Dave Clark Five,
Section 25,
8 Eyed Spy,
Surgeon,
cv313,
Sparks,
Inner City,
Radio Birdman,
Jeff Lynne,
the Bar-Kays,
The Cure,
Gang of Four,
Supertramp,
X-101,
Black Pus,
Second Layer,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Mars,
Lucky Dragons,
the Slits,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
PIL,
the Sonics,
Sugar Minott,
Janne Schatter,
Rites of Spring,
Outsiders,
Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag.
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.