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 Macedonia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro 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 Fort Wilson Riot to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sunsets and Hearts. All the underground hits.
All The Real Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tim Buckley record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba 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?
Barclay James Harvest,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Techniques,
Throbbing Gristle,
Jacob Miller,
Kenny Larkin,
The Fire Engines,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gerry Rafferty,
Crispian St. Peters,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Half Japanese,
the Swans,
Motorama,
Brick,
Yazoo,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Modern Lovers,
The New Christs,
The Dirtbombs,
Desert Stars,
U.S. Maple,
Gregory Isaacs,
Wings,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Bluetip,
June Days,
K-Klass,
The Alarm Clocks,
Moss Icon,
Sparks,
Aural Exciters,
Kerrie Biddell,
Camberwell Now,
Liliput,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Neon Judgement,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Agent Orange,
Eric Copeland,
Barbara Tucker,
Sam Rivers,
Funkadelic,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Soul Sonic Force,
Dead Boys,
The Five Americans,
Minny Pops,
Todd Terry,
Stetsasonic,
Electric Prunes,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Laurel Aitken,
Prince Buster,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Alphaville,
Avey Tare,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Invisible,
The Birthday Party,
Lyres,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Cybotron,
Kevin Saunderson,
Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers.
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.