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 Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe 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 Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Thee Headcoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angels of Light & Akron/Family 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sam Rivers,
X-102,
Silicon Teens,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Swell Maps,
Basic Channel,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sun Ra,
the Fania All-Stars,
Boogie Down Productions,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Deadbeat,
Skriet,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Techniques,
the Human League,
Pet Shop Boys,
Infiniti,
The Pretty Things,
Dark Day,
X-101,
Isaac Hayes,
Camberwell Now,
Gerry Rafferty,
Can,
Eric Copeland,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Detroit Cobras,
Lindisfarne,
the Sonics,
The Velvet Underground,
Eric B and Rakim,
Cheater Slicks,
Magazine,
Wasted Youth,
Man Parrish,
Arab on Radar,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Agitation Free,
Pierre Henry,
the Association,
Radiohead,
T. Rex,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Unrelated Segments,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Fire Engines,
Ralphi Rosario,
Radiopuhelimet,
Yellowson,
Lucky Dragons,
Drexciya,
The Saints,
Rhythm & Sound,
Japan,
Public Enemy,
Deepchord,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
New Age Steppers,
The Selecter,
Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire.
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.