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 Macedonia and from Bologna.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 linndrum 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 Blossom Toes 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 Association. All the underground hits.
All Audionom tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every UT record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quando Quango record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skarface,
Animal Collective,
Lebanon Hanover,
Silicon Teens,
Average White Band,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Smoke,
Lakeside,
Los Fastidios,
Kerrie Biddell,
Cecil Taylor,
the Sonics,
The Gap Band,
Smog,
Robert Hood,
Eric Copeland,
Livin' Joy,
The Wake,
Traffic Nightmare,
Tubeway Army,
The Trojans,
Charles Mingus,
Procol Harum,
Pylon,
Au Pairs,
The Gladiators,
Public Image Ltd.,
Cymande,
The Tremeloes,
ABC,
Steve Hackett,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Big Daddy Kane,
Intrusion,
Tommy Roe,
Sällskapet,
Jesper Dahlback,
OOIOO,
Hasil Adkins,
The Blues Magoos,
Bad Manners,
New Order,
The Litter,
Sam Rivers,
Radiohead,
Terrestrial Tones,
PIL,
B.T. Express,
Underground Resistance,
Magma,
Japan,
Blake Baxter,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
June of 44,
Delta 5,
The Evens,
DJ Sneak,
Massinfluence,
In Retrospect,
Crispy Ambulance, Crispy Ambulance, Crispy Ambulance, Crispy Ambulance.
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.