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 Montenegro and from Bremen.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Can to the electroclash 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 Lee Hazlewood. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deepchord 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bluetip,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Happenings,
The United States of America,
The Techniques,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Bang On A Can,
Skarface,
The Selecter,
Girls At Our Best!,
Electric Prunes,
The Angels of Light,
The Music Machine,
The Human League,
Banda Bassotti,
The Last Poets,
Parry Music,
Gichy Dan,
Bill Near,
Pantaleimon,
Unrelated Segments,
The J.B.'s,
KRS-One,
Robert Görl,
In Retrospect,
Eddi Front,
Bush Tetras,
Johnny Clarke,
The Monochrome Set,
The Fortunes,
Delon & Dalcan,
Joe Finger,
Fugazi,
These Immortal Souls,
Desert Stars,
Connie Case,
John Lydon,
Lyres,
Joensuu 1685,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Davy DMX,
The Alarm Clocks,
the Human League,
Dawn Penn,
Circle Jerks,
Dennis Brown,
The Skatalites,
Donny Hathaway,
The Busters,
Nico,
Black Bananas,
The Fuzztones,
CMW,
Grauzone,
Scion,
R.M.O.,
Tommy Roe,
Sonic Youth,
Gang Green,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Juan Atkins,
Whodini,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.