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 Ecuador and from Manila.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar 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 Scott Walker to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Crooked Eye. All the underground hits.
All Underground Resistance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Busters 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kaleidoscope record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
PIL,
Anakelly,
Khruangbin,
Shoche,
Subhumans,
Blancmange,
The Martian,
KRS-One,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jacques Brel,
Unwound,
The Misunderstood,
Nick Fraelich,
Parry Music,
Henry Cow,
The Human League,
John Foxx,
Bootsy Collins,
David McCallum,
Eden Ahbez,
The Standells,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Drive Like Jehu,
Funkadelic,
Organ,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Scan 7,
Sparks,
Lebanon Hanover,
Chris Corsano,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Erasure,
Urselle,
Procol Harum,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Barracudas,
Donny Hathaway,
Al Stewart,
Ronan,
Groovy Waters,
Animal Collective,
Soulsonic Force,
Janne Schatter,
Make Up,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Desert Stars,
Cheater Slicks,
The Associates,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lalo Schifrin,
Ludus,
Yazoo,
The Selecter,
Amon Düül,
Flamin' Groovies,
Johnny Clarke,
Connie Case,
Ultimate Spinach,
Howard Jones,
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.