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 Vietnam and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Kerri Chandler to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Das Ding. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agitation Free record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-101 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sound Behaviour,
Marcia Griffiths,
Lalann,
DNA,
The Cure,
Frankie Knuckles,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Silicon Teens,
Banda Bassotti,
The Divine Comedy,
Black Sheep,
Erykah Badu,
The Leaves,
Swell Maps,
Soulsonic Force,
Cybotron,
The Blackbyrds,
Eli Mardock,
Warren Ellis,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Fuzztones,
The Beau Brummels,
Au Pairs,
Accadde A,
Slave,
Yusef Lateef,
Roy Ayers,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Shadows of Knight,
Black Flag,
La Düsseldorf,
Mantronix,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Funky Four + One,
Kayak,
Sarah Menescal,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Roxette,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Susan Cadogan,
Saccharine Trust,
Groovy Waters,
Animal Collective,
Von Mondo,
Yazoo,
Jawbox,
Sam Rivers,
The Smoke,
The Red Krayola,
Qualms,
The Dirtbombs,
Japan,
Al Stewart,
Kool Moe Dee,
Eric Copeland,
Stiv Bators,
The Moody Blues,
Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon.
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.