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 Luxembourg and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 rhodes 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 The Motions to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Basic Channel. All the underground hits.
All Aswad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every T. Rex record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brass Construction record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minny Pops,
The Leaves,
Leonard Cohen,
Japan,
The Knickerbockers,
Fela Kuti,
Todd Rundgren,
Man Eating Sloth,
Symarip,
Mark Hollis,
Byron Stingily,
Ornette Coleman,
Moby Grape,
FM Einheit,
It's A Beautiful Day,
JFA,
Jandek,
The Monochrome Set,
The Doors,
This Heat,
Ronnie Foster,
Newcleus,
Jacques Brel,
OOIOO,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Aswad,
Interpol,
Harry Pussy,
The Index,
Scientists,
Joensuu 1685,
Animal Collective,
Negative Approach,
The Dave Clark Five,
Absolute Body Control,
Warsaw,
Brothers Johnson,
Ponytail,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Section 25,
Suicide,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Eden Ahbez,
Theoretical Girls,
Los Fastidios,
Rapeman,
Fad Gadget,
Massinfluence,
June Days,
MDC,
Wolf Eyes,
Terry Callier,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Gerry Rafferty,
Pagans,
Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu.
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.