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 East Timor and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 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 Aloha Tigers to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Franke. All the underground hits.
All Manfred Mann's Earth Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Misunderstood 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alice Coltrane,
Metal Thangz,
In Retrospect,
Black Pus,
Animal Collective,
Talk Talk,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Dirtbombs,
Jesper Dahlback,
Flipper,
The Tremeloes,
Juan Atkins,
Young Marble Giants,
Hoover,
James White and The Blacks,
Delon & Dalcan,
Nirvana,
Lee Hazlewood,
Silicon Teens,
The Star Department,
Eden Ahbez,
Zero Boys,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Minutemen,
Sparks,
Procol Harum,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Althea and Donna,
Von Mondo,
The Remains,
Supertramp,
Aural Exciters,
Lalann,
The Slackers,
Sällskapet,
Khruangbin,
Suicide,
La Düsseldorf,
Little Man,
Robert Hood,
Marmalade,
Chris & Cosey,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gang Green,
Boogie Down Productions,
Idris Muhammad,
Lower 48,
Slick Rick,
The Young Rascals,
The Last Poets,
Erykah Badu,
8 Eyed Spy,
Quadrant,
Groovy Waters,
Index,
Alton Ellis,
Qualms,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Freddie Wadling,
Slave,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.