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 Yemen and from Jakarta.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the sitar 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 Fifty Foot Hose to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Sun Ra Arkestra. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Icehouse record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jawbox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Eric Copeland,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Sonic Youth,
Magma,
Hardrive,
The Mummies,
the Bar-Kays,
Henry Cow,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Stooges,
Ronan,
Black Flag,
ABC,
Soul II Soul,
The Offenders,
Ronnie Foster,
Severed Heads,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Oblivians,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Marine Girls,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ken Boothe,
Intrusion,
Sister Nancy,
Kas Product,
John Holt,
Sandy B,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Ludus,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Terry Callier,
Dave Gahan,
Tim Buckley,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Oneida,
The Monks,
Gang Starr,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sällskapet,
Iggy Pop,
Mr. Review,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lucky Dragons,
Little Man,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Faust,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Yaz,
Archie Shepp,
Albert Ayler,
Flipper,
Icehouse,
Todd Rundgren,
The Vogues,
John Lydon,
Eurythmics,
Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre.
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.