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 Panama and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Delon & Dalcan to the disco 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 Scan 7. All the underground hits.
All Thompson Twins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swell Maps record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angels of Light & Akron/Family record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fuzztones,
Scratch Acid,
Bronski Beat,
Groovy Waters,
Scan 7,
OOIOO,
Rekid,
Excepter,
Lou Reed,
The Music Machine,
John Foxx,
PIL,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Traffic Nightmare,
Stetsasonic,
Mr. Review,
Cal Tjader,
Darondo,
DJ Sneak,
Radiohead,
The Raincoats,
Robert Görl,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Audionom,
The Doobie Brothers,
Andrew Hill,
Delon & Dalcan,
China Crisis,
Janne Schatter,
Fatback Band,
Von Mondo,
Black Pus,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Loose Ends,
Soul Sonic Force,
Cheater Slicks,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Cowsills,
Rosa Yemen,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Archie Shepp,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
a-ha,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Barry Ungar,
Wolf Eyes,
Warren Ellis,
Royal Trux,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Talk Talk,
Jandek,
Ultra Naté,
CMW,
The Busters,
Mark Hollis,
Crash Course in Science,
Mad Mike,
Livin' Joy,
Spoonie Gee,
FM Einheit,
The Monks,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Motorama, Motorama, Motorama, Motorama.
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.