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 Suriname and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Lyon.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the organ 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 Flash Fearless to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Andrew Hill. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive 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 electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Laurel Aitken record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Germs,
The Pop Group,
Amazonics,
The American Breed,
Man Eating Sloth,
Sugar Minott,
Dark Day,
Mission of Burma,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Harry Pussy,
Monolake,
La Düsseldorf,
Procol Harum,
Essential Logic,
Echospace,
T.S.O.L.,
Jeff Mills,
Stereo Dub,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Jerry's Kids,
Kayak,
Brand Nubian,
Simply Red,
Dave Gahan,
Jesper Dahlback,
Eric Dolphy,
kango's stein massive,
Main Source,
Infiniti,
The Motions,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Barbara Tucker,
Electric Prunes,
Lower 48,
The Seeds,
the Fania All-Stars,
MDC,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Blackbyrds,
Blancmange,
Marcia Griffiths,
Amon Düül,
Jandek,
Hashim,
Ronan,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Henry Cow,
Scientists,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Visage,
Animal Collective,
Suicide,
B.T. Express,
Unwound,
R.M.O.,
Trumans Water,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Avey Tare,
Skarface,
The Saints,
The Doors,
Max Romeo,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.