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 Lagos.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Blossom Toes to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Red Krayola. All the underground hits.
All L. Decosne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Model 500 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Star Department,
Kevin Saunderson,
kango's stein massive,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Zeros,
Pantaleimon,
Davy DMX,
Eurythmics,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Nation of Ulysses,
Lucky Dragons,
Scratch Acid,
Yellowson,
Black Sheep,
Avey Tare,
Pantytec,
Zero Boys,
The Blackbyrds,
Dawn Penn,
Peter & Gordon,
Dorothy Ashby,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Marc Almond,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sun Ra,
Moby Grape,
Severed Heads,
Icehouse,
John Cale,
DJ Style,
Al Stewart,
Frankie Knuckles,
Joe Smooth,
Ash Ra Tempel,
the Sonics,
Bobby Byrd,
The Mummies,
Saccharine Trust,
Boz Scaggs,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Stereo Dub,
Symarip,
Skriet,
The Monochrome Set,
The Evens,
Jacques Brel,
The Sonics,
Radio Birdman,
Niagra,
Matthew Halsall,
The Five Americans,
Monks,
Marine Girls,
The Saints,
The Velvet Underground,
Traffic Nightmare,
Das Ding,
Scrapy,
Archie Shepp,
Easy Going,
F. McDonald, F. McDonald, F. McDonald, F. McDonald.
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.