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 Japan and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 chamberlin 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 Sparks to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Moleskins. All the underground hits.
All The Fall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Real Kids 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Birthday Party record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Theoretical Girls,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Camberwell Now,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Swans,
Danielle Patucci,
Unrelated Segments,
The Slits,
Soft Machine,
Nation of Ulysses,
Fad Gadget,
The Gap Band,
Glambeats Corp.,
Bobby Sherman,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Animal Collective,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lebanon Hanover,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Tropical Tobacco,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Crash Course in Science,
AZ,
The Move,
The Barracudas,
The Pretty Things,
New Order,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
MC5,
Warren Ellis,
Fat Boys,
The New Christs,
Tim Buckley,
Amazonics,
Charles Mingus,
Ornette Coleman,
Cameo,
The Gun Club,
Tomorrow,
Second Layer,
The Modern Lovers,
Lou Christie,
The Sound,
Mandrill,
Swell Maps,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Con Funk Shun,
The Techniques,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
the Soft Cell,
Amon Düül,
Schoolly D,
Crime,
Joyce Sims,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Flesh Eaters,
Bobby Womack,
Absolute Body Control,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.