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 South Africa and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 synthesizer 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 Piero Umiliani to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Mars. All the underground hits.
All Monolake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hasil Adkins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Associates record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Nation of Ulysses,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Girls At Our Best!,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Kurtis Blow,
Sparks,
Youth Brigade,
The Motions,
Pantaleimon,
The Monks,
Magma,
Kenny Larkin,
The Shadows of Knight,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Subhumans,
Symarip,
Echospace,
The Doors,
Freddie Wadling,
Vainqueur,
The Alarm Clocks,
Boz Scaggs,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lyres,
Prince Buster,
Camberwell Now,
Lightning Bolt,
Mantronix,
Andrew Hill,
Kas Product,
Donny Hathaway,
A Certain Ratio,
The Red Krayola,
Aural Exciters,
the Association,
Unwound,
The Golliwogs,
Althea and Donna,
Arcadia,
Robert Hood,
Wally Richardson,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Das Ding,
Avey Tare,
Drive Like Jehu,
Todd Rundgren,
Fela Kuti,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Royal Trux,
The Moleskins,
Jawbox,
8 Eyed Spy,
Swell Maps,
The Fortunes,
Section 25,
The Electric Prunes,
Ten City, Ten City, Ten City, Ten City.
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.