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 Eritrea and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Lou Reed to the crunk 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 Shoche. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Japan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ralphi Rosario,
The Smiths,
K-Klass,
Bill Wells,
Icehouse,
Sonny Sharrock,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Adolescents,
The Monochrome Set,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Goldenarms,
The Fall,
Nation of Ulysses,
Josef K,
Cameo,
The Doors,
The Vogues,
Soft Machine,
Harpers Bizarre,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ten City,
Dennis Brown,
Blossom Toes,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Golliwogs,
Gang Gang Dance,
Roxy Music,
Animal Collective,
The Beau Brummels,
The Fuzztones,
Magma,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
H. Thieme,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Suicide,
cv313,
Minny Pops,
Youth Brigade,
Das Ding,
the Normal,
Infiniti,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Cluster,
The Mojo Men,
Pierre Henry,
Metal Thangz,
Chris Corsano,
Quadrant,
Intrusion,
Grauzone,
Anakelly,
The Trojans,
Lightning Bolt,
Liliput,
Interpol,
Underground Resistance,
Morten Harket,
Black Bananas,
One Last Wish,
The Gap Band,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran.
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.