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 Laos and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Sun City Girls to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Young Rascals. All the underground hits.
All Sonny Sharrock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek 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 an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Slave record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Human League,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Michelle Simonal,
The Music Machine,
Jawbox,
Roxy Music,
Glenn Branca,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Marshall Jefferson,
Kevin Saunderson,
Agitation Free,
Siglo XX,
Marmalade,
Das Ding,
Joey Negro,
Ornette Coleman,
Robert Hood,
Khruangbin,
Smog,
Hoover,
the Swans,
Aaron Thompson,
Josef K,
Radio Birdman,
Matthew Bourne,
The J.B.'s,
Patti Smith,
Motorama,
Ohio Players,
Joy Division,
Clear Light,
The New Christs,
Grauzone,
Intrusion,
Sarah Menescal,
Altered Images,
Malaria!,
Scott Walker,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Country Teasers,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Moss Icon,
10cc,
Camouflage,
Loose Ends,
Lebanon Hanover,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lalo Schifrin,
L. Decosne,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Amon Düül,
The Alarm Clocks,
Monolake,
Depeche Mode,
Fear,
Absolute Body Control,
Unrelated Segments,
The Gap Band,
The Five Americans,
Rites of Spring,
Dead Boys,
The Trojans, The Trojans, The Trojans, The Trojans.
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.