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 Spain and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 chamberlin 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine to the electroclash 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 The Fall. All the underground hits.
All Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tres Demented record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Starr,
Wasted Youth,
Massinfluence,
Fad Gadget,
The Tremeloes,
The Moleskins,
Eddi Front,
Barclay James Harvest,
Duran Duran,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Nico,
U.S. Maple,
The Seeds,
Pere Ubu,
The Litter,
Kool Moe Dee,
Popol Vuh,
Magazine,
Soft Cell,
Guru Guru,
Delta 5,
Pylon,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Hoover,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Gabor Szabo,
Slave,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Arcadia,
Sonny Sharrock,
Gerry Rafferty,
Excepter,
The Fire Engines,
Suicide,
Motorama,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sandy B,
Pantaleimon,
Sparks,
Stereo Dub,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Cowsills,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Japan,
The Birthday Party,
June Days,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Hardrive,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Gichy Dan,
Tears for Fears,
Minutemen,
Danielle Patucci,
Letta Mbulu,
Amazonics,
Sound Behaviour,
Althea and Donna,
Albert Ayler,
Mr. Review,
Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté.
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.