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 Poland and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Nas to the grunge 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 Barclay James Harvest. All the underground hits.
All Half Japanese tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Evens 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fad Gadget record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fluxion,
Blake Baxter,
Niagra,
Deadbeat,
Peter & Gordon,
Mission of Burma,
Mo-Dettes,
Scrapy,
Juan Atkins,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Trumans Water,
Gong,
Scan 7,
PIL,
Pantytec,
David McCallum,
Danielle Patucci,
Minor Threat,
Massinfluence,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Moody Blues,
Icehouse,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Visage,
CMW,
Roger Hodgson,
The Fire Engines,
ABBA,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Trojans,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Drexciya,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Young Marble Giants,
Unrelated Segments,
Moebius,
Matthew Bourne,
The Tremeloes,
Tubeway Army,
The Selecter,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Harry Pussy,
Royal Trux,
Boogie Down Productions,
The United States of America,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
New Order,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Fugazi,
Warsaw,
The Names,
Los Fastidios,
Easy Going,
Harmonia,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Nick Fraelich,
The Moleskins,
Chris Corsano,
Oneida,
Cluster,
Symarip,
Bootsy Collins,
Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran.
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.