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 Greece and from Tehran.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Mary Jane Girls to the funk 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 Danielle Patucci. All the underground hits.
All Roxette tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liliput record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shoche record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
Drive Like Jehu,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Cecil Taylor,
Average White Band,
T. Rex,
CMW,
Qualms,
Lou Christie,
Blancmange,
Mark Hollis,
The Gladiators,
Lou Reed,
Black Flag,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Smog,
Moss Icon,
Crash Course in Science,
The Grass Roots,
Marc Almond,
Newcleus,
kango's stein massive,
Jacques Brel,
Nils Olav,
The Associates,
The Neon Judgement,
Harpers Bizarre,
Zapp,
D'Angelo,
Mission of Burma,
Darondo,
The Slits,
Deadbeat,
Letta Mbulu,
Cluster,
Magma,
Pulsallama,
Desert Stars,
Black Moon,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Kevin Saunderson,
New Order,
Tom Boy,
T.S.O.L.,
Fatback Band,
Grey Daturas,
The Sound,
MC5,
Funky Four + One,
Niagra,
R.M.O.,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Arthur Verocai,
Marine Girls,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Oneida,
The Velvet Underground,
Swell Maps,
Sparks,
Interpol,
The Motions,
Archie Shepp,
Whodini,
Bauhaus,
The Doors, The Doors, The Doors, The Doors.
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.