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 Azerbaijan and from Milan.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Gerry Rafferty. All the underground hits.
All Rahsaan Roland Kirk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Joe & The Fish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grey Daturas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Iggy Pop,
Ornette Coleman,
Sonny Sharrock,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Derrick May,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Associates,
Arab on Radar,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Porter Ricks,
The Fall,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Knickerbockers,
The Count Five,
John Foxx,
Camberwell Now,
Man Eating Sloth,
Duran Duran,
Fluxion,
DJ Sneak,
Whodini,
Wings,
a-ha,
the Fania All-Stars,
E-Dancer,
Warren Ellis,
the Association,
Fela Kuti,
Wasted Youth,
The Monks,
OOIOO,
Youth Brigade,
Lee Hazlewood,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Slackers,
Minny Pops,
The Moleskins,
ABC,
Boredoms,
Chris Corsano,
Siglo XX,
Second Layer,
Anthony Braxton,
Roxette,
The Martian,
The Raincoats,
Inner City,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Radiopuhelimet,
Girls At Our Best!,
Pantaleimon,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
One Last Wish,
Soft Cell,
Niagra,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Swans,
Goldenarms,
Idris Muhammad,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.