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 Chad and from London.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Sao Paulo.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 The Skatalites to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Sonic Youth. All the underground hits.
All Sarah Menescal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Richard Hell and the Voidoids 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Half Japanese record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Johnny Clarke,
Erykah Badu,
Sound Behaviour,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Wings,
Circle Jerks,
The Doors,
Goldenarms,
Wire,
Slave,
Radiohead,
JFA,
Jawbox,
Colin Newman,
AZ,
Outsiders,
The Walker Brothers,
Aaron Thompson,
Excepter,
The Offenders,
Archie Shepp,
Average White Band,
Fela Kuti,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Lakeside,
Second Layer,
Donny Hathaway,
Quando Quango,
Organ,
Quantec,
David Axelrod,
New Age Steppers,
Nik Kershaw,
The Seeds,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Flipper,
David McCallum,
Ossler,
Faust,
Toni Rubio,
the Swans,
Dual Sessions,
Popol Vuh,
Silicon Teens,
Man Parrish,
Franke,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Star Department,
LL Cool J,
Royal Trux,
Whodini,
June of 44,
Young Marble Giants,
Yusef Lateef,
Dark Day,
Rufus Thomas,
ABBA,
Flash Fearless,
Barclay James Harvest,
Mo-Dettes,
Agitation Free,
Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow.
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.