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 Vietnam and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 clarinet 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 Public Image Ltd. to the disco 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 Unwound. All the underground hits.
All The Neon Judgement tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare 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 güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marvin Gaye,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
T.S.O.L.,
Faust,
The Walker Brothers,
Letta Mbulu,
Arthur Verocai,
Deadbeat,
Silicon Teens,
Simply Red,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Robert Wyatt,
Todd Rundgren,
This Heat,
Underground Resistance,
Ken Boothe,
John Lydon,
Desert Stars,
Reagan Youth,
In Retrospect,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Amon Düül II,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Al Stewart,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Nick Fraelich,
The Grass Roots,
Black Moon,
Trumans Water,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
48th St. Collective,
Kenny Larkin,
Slick Rick,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Little Man,
Scott Walker,
CMW,
Arab on Radar,
Yellowson,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Metal Thangz,
Eric Copeland,
Kerri Chandler,
Roy Ayers,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Dual Sessions,
the Human League,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Tears for Fears,
The Evens,
The Gories,
Yaz,
Supertramp,
The Sonics,
Thee Headcoats,
Ronnie Foster,
Television Personalities,
Visage,
Grandmaster Flash,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.