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 Israel and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Parry Music. All the underground hits.
All Au Pairs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gong record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tropical Tobacco record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
The Young Rascals,
Bluetip,
Bobby Sherman,
Television Personalities,
Flash Fearless,
The Offenders,
Aural Exciters,
Fatback Band,
Tommy Roe,
Mars,
Throbbing Gristle,
Jeff Lynne,
Robert Görl,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Harry Pussy,
Warren Ellis,
Bauhaus,
Arab on Radar,
Surgeon,
One Last Wish,
Sight & Sound,
Eden Ahbez,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jacques Brel,
Thompson Twins,
The Monks,
Heaven 17,
Scientists,
Grauzone,
kango's stein massive,
the Germs,
Don Cherry,
World's Most,
The Durutti Column,
Porter Ricks,
The Residents,
Chris Corsano,
ABC,
Half Japanese,
Sparks,
David Bowie,
Jimmy McGriff,
Ohio Players,
Eyeless In Gaza,
48th St. Collective,
Slick Rick,
Blake Baxter,
The Index,
Icehouse,
Ten City,
Prince Buster,
The Remains,
Motorama,
Steve Hackett,
Grandmaster Flash,
Neil Young,
Panda Bear,
Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee.
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.