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 Moldova and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 theremin 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 Eden Ahbez to the jazz 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 DNA. All the underground hits.
All Janne Schatter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang of Four 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Section 25,
Joensuu 1685,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Tomorrow,
Tres Demented,
Frankie Knuckles,
Groovy Waters,
Babytalk,
Sex Pistols,
Cymande,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Black Sheep,
Minnie Riperton,
Soft Cell,
Don Cherry,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Todd Rundgren,
The Cowsills,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Be Bop Deluxe,
In Retrospect,
Man Eating Sloth,
Scan 7,
The Black Dice,
Rosa Yemen,
Radio Birdman,
The American Breed,
Blancmange,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
the Soft Cell,
Hashim,
Lee Hazlewood,
Avey Tare,
Maurizio,
The Wake,
Supertramp,
Marcia Griffiths,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Detroit Cobras,
Maleditus Sound,
Lucky Dragons,
The Real Kids,
Deepchord,
James White and The Blacks,
The Fortunes,
Franke,
Bobby Womack,
Peter & Gordon,
Tommy Roe,
Mandrill,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Busters,
Joy Division,
Ultimate Spinach,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
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.