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 Benin and from Columbus.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Barbara Tucker to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Nick Fraelich. All the underground hits.
All The Dirtbombs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Surgeon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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?
the Human League,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Basic Channel,
Trumans Water,
Radiohead,
Camberwell Now,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Clear Light,
David McCallum,
Surgeon,
Peter & Gordon,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Scrapy,
Matthew Halsall,
Mantronix,
Jesper Dahlback,
Aloha Tigers,
Young Marble Giants,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Amon Düül II,
The Evens,
Reuben Wilson,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
8 Eyed Spy,
Niagra,
Jeff Mills,
Brand Nubian,
MC5,
The Count Five,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Junior Murvin,
Wolf Eyes,
Deepchord,
New Age Steppers,
One Last Wish,
Quadrant,
Marcia Griffiths,
Thompson Twins,
ABC,
T.S.O.L.,
Brothers Johnson,
KRS-One,
The Slits,
The Blackbyrds,
David Bowie,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Panda Bear,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Fluxion,
Robert Görl,
Nico,
Circle Jerks,
48th St. Collective,
Quando Quango,
Bad Manners,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Cramps,
Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter.
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.