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 Taiwan and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Minor Threat to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Lucky Dragons. All the underground hits.
All Soft Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nirvana 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pierre Henry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Young Marble Giants,
Donny Hathaway,
The Invisible,
The Music Machine,
Masters at Work,
Porter Ricks,
The Mummies,
Skaos,
The Sonics,
Theoretical Girls,
The Zeros,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Minnie Riperton,
UT,
Average White Band,
Bush Tetras,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Severed Heads,
Aswad,
Fat Boys,
A Certain Ratio,
Accadde A,
Drive Like Jehu,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Altered Images,
Inner City,
Scan 7,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Gladiators,
a-ha,
Colin Newman,
the Human League,
Toni Rubio,
The Leaves,
Ituana,
Little Man,
Fatback Band,
Chris Corsano,
Godley & Creme,
The Grass Roots,
Rapeman,
The Busters,
Von Mondo,
Urselle,
Roxy Music,
Arab on Radar,
B.T. Express,
Andrew Hill,
Grauzone,
The Vogues,
Hot Snakes,
Flipper,
Jacob Miller,
Con Funk Shun,
The Blackbyrds,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bootsy Collins,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Fluxion,
Arcadia,
Wings,
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear.
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.