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 Russia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Deakin to the rap 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 Ice-T. All the underground hits.
All Warsaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Invisible record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Au Pairs,
Andrew Hill,
Juan Atkins,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lakeside,
Pulsallama,
Crooked Eye,
Masters at Work,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Saccharine Trust,
Davy DMX,
Bang On A Can,
Joey Negro,
Leonard Cohen,
The Cowsills,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
8 Eyed Spy,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Intrusion,
Sister Nancy,
Royal Trux,
The Moleskins,
Negative Approach,
Mo-Dettes,
Gang Green,
The Star Department,
Jerry's Kids,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Technova,
The Standells,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Associates,
Los Fastidios,
The Gap Band,
The Beau Brummels,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Invisible,
The Wake,
Lee Hazlewood,
Echospace,
The Cramps,
Janne Schatter,
Wire,
Unwound,
The Motions,
Main Source,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Roger Hodgson,
Moebius,
Gil Scott Heron,
Minny Pops,
Bill Wells,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Derrick May,
Robert Wyatt,
New York Dolls,
Byron Stingily,
Arthur Verocai,
Von Mondo,
Desert Stars,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight.
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.