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 Liberia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 This Heat to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Rod Modell 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 grunge 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 mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a In Retrospect record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Infiniti,
The Residents,
Lalann,
Alphaville,
Khruangbin,
Amon Düül,
Intrusion,
Fad Gadget,
The Seeds,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Angry Samoans,
Das Ding,
Brand Nubian,
Crime,
The Fall,
Suicide,
Country Teasers,
Youth Brigade,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Amon Düül II,
La Düsseldorf,
The Divine Comedy,
The Wake,
Radio Birdman,
kango's stein massive,
Unrelated Segments,
Charles Mingus,
The Modern Lovers,
Marine Girls,
Tropical Tobacco,
Dave Gahan,
Kerrie Biddell,
Steve Hackett,
The Cramps,
Donald Byrd,
The Count Five,
Scott Walker,
Ultimate Spinach,
Bobby Sherman,
Terry Callier,
Magma,
Bad Manners,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Jandek,
Kerri Chandler,
Joyce Sims,
Peter & Gordon,
Nas,
Quadrant,
Thompson Twins,
Monolake,
The Durutti Column,
The Zeros,
Pharoah Sanders,
Swans,
Sonny Sharrock,
Moby Grape,
The Red Krayola,
Interpol,
Tres Demented,
The Gladiators,
June of 44,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.