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 Taipei.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Rotary Connection to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Amon Düül II. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Techniques record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Walker Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wire,
Laurel Aitken,
The Slackers,
Kaleidoscope,
Pole,
Cybotron,
Icehouse,
Schoolly D,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Intrusion,
Gong,
Yazoo,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ronnie Foster,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bobby Sherman,
Skaos,
Siglo XX,
Lalo Schifrin,
New Order,
Erykah Badu,
David Axelrod,
Panda Bear,
Zapp,
Eli Mardock,
The Divine Comedy,
Qualms,
Oneida,
Blossom Toes,
Visage,
The Flesh Eaters,
Tommy Roe,
June Days,
Faust,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Mummies,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Junior Murvin,
Neu!,
The Busters,
Youth Brigade,
Magma,
Black Moon,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Absolute Body Control,
Ultra Naté,
Delta 5,
E-Dancer,
Monks,
Country Teasers,
CMW,
Joy Division,
The Barracudas,
Index,
OOIOO,
Suicide,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Section 25,
Darondo,
Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry.
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.