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 Cambodia and from Philadelphia.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Toronto.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 10cc to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Dennis Brown. All the underground hits.
All The Stooges tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joey Negro record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord 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 Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Bill Near,
kango's stein massive,
Darondo,
Metal Thangz,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Arcadia,
Lee Hazlewood,
Khruangbin,
Fugazi,
The Index,
Skriet,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Crispian St. Peters,
K-Klass,
The Litter,
The Velvet Underground,
Underground Resistance,
Dawn Penn,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lower 48,
The Alarm Clocks,
ABC,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Delon & Dalcan,
Brass Construction,
Soul II Soul,
Avey Tare,
The Birthday Party,
Animal Collective,
The Moleskins,
Piero Umiliani,
X-101,
Groovy Waters,
Jacob Miller,
The Blues Magoos,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Glambeats Corp.,
Black Moon,
Crooked Eye,
Neil Young,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
UT,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Rosa Yemen,
Dave Gahan,
Minor Threat,
Mark Hollis,
Zero Boys,
Jawbox,
Quando Quango,
Ten City,
Blossom Toes,
Rapeman,
Ultravox,
The Black Dice,
Barrington Levy,
Wire,
Hoover,
The Grass Roots,
Royal Trux,
Buzzcocks,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty.
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.