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 Colombia and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Stockholm.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Soft Cell to the grime 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 Talk Talk. All the underground hits.
All Drexciya tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bang On A Can 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a World's Most record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Delon & Dalcan,
Throbbing Gristle,
Crispy Ambulance,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Animal Collective,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Fuzztones,
Erykah Badu,
Sugar Minott,
Erasure,
MC5,
Jacob Miller,
Mantronix,
Moebius,
Johnny Osbourne,
Hot Snakes,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Selecter,
Marvin Gaye,
H. Thieme,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Minnie Riperton,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Cramps,
Fear,
Joy Division,
The Angels of Light,
Eve St. Jones,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Au Pairs,
Gang Starr,
Peter & Gordon,
Underground Resistance,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Ken Boothe,
Fad Gadget,
John Foxx,
Derrick Morgan,
The Barracudas,
The Sonics,
One Last Wish,
Popol Vuh,
Faust,
Depeche Mode,
Johnny Clarke,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Con Funk Shun,
Todd Terry,
Pagans,
Tommy Roe,
MDC,
Piero Umiliani,
Mandrill,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Al Stewart,
David McCallum,
Alice Coltrane,
Average White Band,
D'Angelo,
the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.
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.