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 Croatia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 synthesizer 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 The Modern Lovers to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Moss Icon. All the underground hits.
All Make Up tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Davy DMX record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ronan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Archie Shepp,
Vladislav Delay,
Vainqueur,
Ossler,
Jeru the Damaja,
Ice-T,
Robert Görl,
The Moody Blues,
Scan 7,
The Last Poets,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Tremeloes,
MC5,
Aswad,
The Leaves,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Fad Gadget,
Idris Muhammad,
Adolescents,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Junior Murvin,
Newcleus,
Johnny Osbourne,
Stetsasonic,
The Selecter,
Peter and Kerry,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Tears for Fears,
Robert Hood,
Joy Division,
Byron Stingily,
Danielle Patucci,
Television Personalities,
the Normal,
Das Ding,
Barclay James Harvest,
Scott Walker,
The Smiths,
Eve St. Jones,
Zero Boys,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Blake Baxter,
Magazine,
The Detroit Cobras,
Fifty Foot Hose,
R.M.O.,
Dave Gahan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Anakelly,
The Trojans,
Nils Olav,
CMW,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Animal Collective,
Flipper,
Dawn Penn,
Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman.
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.