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 Tonga and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the theremin 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 The Gap Band 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 Avey Tare. All the underground hits.
All Schoolly D tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Can 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Teasers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Boogie Down Productions,
Dawn Penn,
Tim Buckley,
Traffic Nightmare,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Wolf Eyes,
the Swans,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Excepter,
The Offenders,
Jesper Dahlback,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Nation of Ulysses,
Nik Kershaw,
Subhumans,
Interpol,
Darondo,
Country Teasers,
Peter & Gordon,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Loose Ends,
Al Stewart,
Von Mondo,
Pierre Henry,
Qualms,
Bill Wells,
Lightning Bolt,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Stockholm Monsters,
Ultimate Spinach,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nas,
The Detroit Cobras,
Fad Gadget,
48th St. Collective,
Deakin,
The Alarm Clocks,
Moby Grape,
Big Daddy Kane,
Dark Day,
Whodini,
Mars,
Average White Band,
The Victims,
The New Christs,
The Five Americans,
Roxy Music,
Brothers Johnson,
Matthew Halsall,
Zapp,
Khruangbin,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Zero Boys,
Suburban Knight,
Faraquet,
In Retrospect,
Cal Tjader,
Rakim,
Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger.
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.