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 Oman and from Stockholm.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Bologna.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Heaven 17 to the electroclash 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 Bobby Byrd. All the underground hits.
All Barclay James Harvest tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Youth Brigade,
Neil Young,
Susan Cadogan,
EPMD,
T.S.O.L.,
The Doobie Brothers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eddi Front,
The Standells,
The Count Five,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Japan,
Royal Trux,
Avey Tare,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Sound Behaviour,
Lungfish,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The J.B.'s,
Brick,
X-Ray Spex,
Kool Moe Dee,
FM Einheit,
Laurel Aitken,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Slick Rick,
Grandmaster Flash,
David McCallum,
Hot Snakes,
Monks,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Black Pus,
Chrome,
Girls At Our Best!,
Scion,
The Slackers,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Techniques,
Thee Headcoats,
Hoover,
The Grass Roots,
Fear,
Eve St. Jones,
Organ,
Silicon Teens,
Slave,
The Cramps,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
A Certain Ratio,
Marcia Griffiths,
Jeff Lynne,
Amon Düül,
Index,
The Sonics,
Wolf Eyes,
Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk.
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.