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 Comoros and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the linndrum 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 The Buckinghams to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All Grey Daturas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Saccharine Trust 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alice Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Japan,
DNA,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Patti Smith,
Television Personalities,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Gang Gang Dance,
Freddie Wadling,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Monochrome Set,
Gong,
Radio Birdman,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Black Flag,
Gastr Del Sol,
Lower 48,
Country Teasers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Barry Ungar,
Siglo XX,
The Fugs,
Tom Boy,
kango's stein massive,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Gang of Four,
Boogie Down Productions,
Panda Bear,
Grandmaster Flash,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Interpol,
The Motions,
E-Dancer,
Eric Copeland,
Lebanon Hanover,
Derrick May,
The Seeds,
the Swans,
Depeche Mode,
Make Up,
Flipper,
Deakin,
Avey Tare,
Silicon Teens,
Prince Buster,
La Düsseldorf,
Lucky Dragons,
David McCallum,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Leaves,
The Victims,
Joy Division,
The Mojo Men,
Fad Gadget,
Barclay James Harvest,
Subhumans,
Tubeway Army,
Mr. Review,
Ossler, Ossler, Ossler, Ossler.
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.