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 Guinea and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Albert Ayler to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Fugazi. All the underground hits.
All Donald Byrd tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Charles Mingus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Foxx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cure,
Scientists,
David Bowie,
X-102,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Donny Hathaway,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Jeru the Damaja,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Echospace,
Hardrive,
Eddi Front,
New Order,
John Cale,
Bobby Byrd,
Public Enemy,
Blossom Toes,
Kenny Larkin,
Hoover,
Johnny Clarke,
Bill Wells,
Depeche Mode,
Marcia Griffiths,
Aloha Tigers,
Q65,
Thompson Twins,
Mark Hollis,
Funkadelic,
Boredoms,
Mad Mike,
Deakin,
Gang Starr,
Cybotron,
Wire,
Cameo,
Funky Four + One,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Fela Kuti,
Moebius,
Quantec,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Cluster,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Byron Stingily,
The Walker Brothers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gang Gang Dance,
Banda Bassotti,
Johnny Osbourne,
Youth Brigade,
Alton Ellis,
Oneida,
Pussy Galore,
Brand Nubian,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
E-Dancer,
Darondo,
Infiniti,
Can,
Tommy Roe,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes.
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.