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 East Timor and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in 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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the sitar 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 Ohio Players to the punk 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 Ornette Coleman. All the underground hits.
All Lizzy Mercier Descloux tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every In Retrospect 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Newcleus,
Livin' Joy,
Arab on Radar,
Moebius,
Lee Hazlewood,
Steve Hackett,
Marc Almond,
Judy Mowatt,
Sonic Youth,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Thompson Twins,
Jerry's Kids,
The Evens,
The Leaves,
Brothers Johnson,
John Foxx,
Davy DMX,
ABBA,
Traffic Nightmare,
the Fania All-Stars,
Infiniti,
Panda Bear,
Robert Görl,
Soft Cell,
Babytalk,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Peter and Kerry,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Real Kids,
Gastr Del Sol,
Girls At Our Best!,
Vladislav Delay,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Skriet,
Sugar Minott,
Easy Going,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Shuggie Otis,
kango's stein massive,
Flamin' Groovies,
Hasil Adkins,
Kool Moe Dee,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Yusef Lateef,
Maleditus Sound,
Silicon Teens,
Josef K,
Blancmange,
Bootsy Collins,
The American Breed,
Nico,
Visage,
The Selecter,
X-Ray Spex,
Freddie Wadling,
Basic Channel,
Erasure,
Sonny Sharrock,
Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work.
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.