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 Taiwan and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Kings Of Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All Rhythim Is Rhythim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Be Bop Deluxe,
Angry Samoans,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lucky Dragons,
Rapeman,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Ohio Players,
Cecil Taylor,
Scion,
Radiopuhelimet,
Procol Harum,
Grauzone,
Accadde A,
Moebius,
Maurizio,
Fear,
Buzzcocks,
Man Parrish,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Make Up,
Liliput,
Eli Mardock,
Ornette Coleman,
Eric Copeland,
Soul Sonic Force,
Dennis Brown,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Red Krayola,
Yazoo,
D'Angelo,
Blake Baxter,
X-102,
Saccharine Trust,
The Tremeloes,
Siglo XX,
Curtis Mayfield,
Wire,
Severed Heads,
48th St. Collective,
Archie Shepp,
Niagra,
Nils Olav,
Junior Murvin,
Tom Boy,
EPMD,
Kerri Chandler,
Lightning Bolt,
Black Pus,
Sparks,
Josef K,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Monks,
Rotary Connection,
Fluxion,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Skarface,
The Fugs,
Camouflage,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Names,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies.
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.