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 Japan and from Mumbai.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 güiro 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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson to the grunge 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 Vainqueur. All the underground hits.
All Section 25 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence 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?
Danielle Patucci,
The Monochrome Set,
Moebius,
Y Pants,
Graham Central Station,
Lee Hazlewood,
Alton Ellis,
The Fortunes,
The American Breed,
Television,
Mandrill,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Quantec,
X-101,
Marcia Griffiths,
Tears for Fears,
Thee Headcoats,
Half Japanese,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Glambeats Corp.,
Magazine,
Al Stewart,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Derrick Morgan,
The Searchers,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Motions,
X-Ray Spex,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Funky Four + One,
Matthew Bourne,
Stiv Bators,
Sight & Sound,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Panda Bear,
Lou Reed,
Fela Kuti,
Delon & Dalcan,
Neil Young,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Camouflage,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lebanon Hanover,
Susan Cadogan,
Bronski Beat,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Mo-Dettes,
Fad Gadget,
Drexciya,
Godley & Creme,
Funkadelic,
DJ Style,
The Mojo Men,
The Vogues,
Underground Resistance,
Jeru the Damaja,
Cluster,
Ludus,
H. Thieme,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Subhumans,
The Birthday Party,
Sparks, Sparks, Sparks, Sparks.
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.