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 Austria and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Terry Callier 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 Popol Vuh. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sarah Menescal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Animal Collective record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Monolake,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Johnny Clarke,
Boz Scaggs,
Inner City,
FM Einheit,
R.M.O.,
Dorothy Ashby,
Audionom,
Eve St. Jones,
Magma,
The Evens,
Television,
Flamin' Groovies,
Thee Headcoats,
Pulsallama,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Bootsy Collins,
Spandau Ballet,
Barclay James Harvest,
Magazine,
Black Sheep,
Ornette Coleman,
Steve Hackett,
Anakelly,
June Days,
The Associates,
Lalann,
Alice Coltrane,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Gap Band,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
James Chance & The Contortions,
ABBA,
Lungfish,
Jandek,
Sight & Sound,
Roxy Music,
Scientists,
New Order,
Arcadia,
Stetsasonic,
Bluetip,
Basic Channel,
Agitation Free,
Man Parrish,
Altered Images,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Dark Day,
Marcia Griffiths,
Todd Rundgren,
The Busters,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Alton Ellis,
Con Funk Shun,
Panda Bear,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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.