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 Portugal and from Copenhagen.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the mellotron 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 June Days to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Robert Görl. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythm & Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Flag record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
Matthew Halsall,
Fluxion,
Andrew Hill,
Lyres,
Slave,
Con Funk Shun,
Curtis Mayfield,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Josef K,
Kas Product,
Man Parrish,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Jandek,
Hasil Adkins,
Grauzone,
The Five Americans,
Nico,
Joy Division,
Average White Band,
Mars,
Sugar Minott,
Ludus,
Excepter,
Quando Quango,
Aaron Thompson,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Massinfluence,
Public Image Ltd.,
Outsiders,
The Black Dice,
Agitation Free,
Marshall Jefferson,
Duran Duran,
Aural Exciters,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
X-Ray Spex,
Soulsonic Force,
Albert Ayler,
The Mummies,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Gabor Szabo,
Urselle,
Sixth Finger,
The Standells,
Joe Finger,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Intrusion,
Malaria!,
The Shadows of Knight,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Y Pants,
Hot Snakes,
Traffic Nightmare,
JFA,
Eden Ahbez,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.