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 Serbia and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Black Flag to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. All the underground hits.
All Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every De La Soul & Jungle Brothers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 Lou Christie record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Gun Club,
Gang Starr,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Babytalk,
The Electric Prunes,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Panda Bear,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Jerry's Kids,
Nils Olav,
Unrelated Segments,
Kerrie Biddell,
Average White Band,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Barry Ungar,
Niagra,
Moss Icon,
Monks,
The Knickerbockers,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
the Sonics,
Adolescents,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Barrington Levy,
Bad Manners,
Wire,
Country Teasers,
Sällskapet,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Music Machine,
The Techniques,
Erasure,
Fugazi,
Dorothy Ashby,
Wally Richardson,
Marcia Griffiths,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Moby Grape,
Glenn Branca,
the Fania All-Stars,
Maleditus Sound,
Cabaret Voltaire,
the Human League,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Blossom Toes,
Pylon,
Schoolly D,
Gong,
Donald Byrd,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Toni Rubio,
Cheater Slicks,
R.M.O.,
Boogie Down Productions,
Kenny Larkin,
Pantytec,
In Retrospect,
X-101,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Lungfish,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.