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 Paraguay and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes 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 Lafayette Afro Rock Band. All the underground hits.
All The Divine Comedy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Throbbing Gristle record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Teasers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jawbox,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Pylon,
Minnie Riperton,
Little Man,
Mars,
Chrome,
MDC,
Sun City Girls,
Maurizio,
The Techniques,
Johnny Clarke,
The Blackbyrds,
a-ha,
Bronski Beat,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Technova,
Junior Murvin,
Matthew Bourne,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Shoche,
Magma,
The J.B.'s,
The Durutti Column,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Panda Bear,
Ornette Coleman,
Piero Umiliani,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Agent Orange,
Loose Ends,
Monolake,
The Leaves,
Cluster,
Boz Scaggs,
Cymande,
The Knickerbockers,
The Gories,
Kerri Chandler,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Barclay James Harvest,
Eddi Front,
The Dirtbombs,
Yazoo,
Donald Byrd,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Raincoats,
The Mojo Men,
Sound Behaviour,
The Stooges,
Curtis Mayfield,
Los Fastidios,
June of 44,
Supertramp,
Kurtis Blow,
Ken Boothe,
Nils Olav,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Trumans Water,
Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon.
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.