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 Albania and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Hot Snakes 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk. All the underground hits.
All The Knickerbockers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Litter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rapeman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Amazonics,
Los Fastidios,
David Axelrod,
The Alarm Clocks,
Robert Görl,
Scion,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Pagans,
Avey Tare,
the Swans,
The Dead C,
Porter Ricks,
the Germs,
T.S.O.L.,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Terry Callier,
New Order,
Cymande,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sonny Sharrock,
Curtis Mayfield,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Fugs,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Tremeloes,
The Mojo Men,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
F. McDonald,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Walker Brothers,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Raincoats,
The Barracudas,
Andrew Hill,
Soft Cell,
Mark Hollis,
Country Teasers,
Gerry Rafferty,
B.T. Express,
The Victims,
JFA,
Gang Gang Dance,
Tubeway Army,
Rites of Spring,
Kerri Chandler,
The Residents,
Magma,
The Happenings,
Funkadelic,
Au Pairs,
The Blackbyrds,
Warren Ellis,
The Last Poets,
Bad Manners,
Masters at Work,
Supertramp,
Excepter,
The Invisible,
Eric Copeland,
Model 500, Model 500, Model 500, Model 500.
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.