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 France and from Edmonton.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Camouflage to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Modern Lovers. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eyeless In Gaza record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delta 5,
Iggy Pop,
the Swans,
Kerri Chandler,
The Fuzztones,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Busters,
Model 500,
Soul Sonic Force,
Accadde A,
Ice-T,
Brothers Johnson,
Skarface,
Groovy Waters,
Donald Byrd,
The Moleskins,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Albert Ayler,
James White and The Blacks,
L. Decosne,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Dorothy Ashby,
Von Mondo,
Audionom,
Crispian St. Peters,
Jeru the Damaja,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Eric Copeland,
Fat Boys,
Sarah Menescal,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Zapp,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Tremeloes,
Joe Finger,
Wally Richardson,
Jerry's Kids,
The Monochrome Set,
La Düsseldorf,
Echospace,
the Fania All-Stars,
Flash Fearless,
Young Marble Giants,
U.S. Maple,
Oblivians,
Cybotron,
Graham Central Station,
Boredoms,
The Sonics,
Public Enemy,
The Music Machine,
Motorama,
Alton Ellis,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Nirvana,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Zero Boys,
cv313,
Roger Hodgson,
Bobby Womack,
Scientists,
The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks.
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.