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 Mozambique and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 güiro 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the rap 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 Swans. All the underground hits.
All Deadbeat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unrelated Segments 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moody Blues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Steve Hackett,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Pet Shop Boys,
Rufus Thomas,
Q65,
Fad Gadget,
Scion,
Bootsy Collins,
New Order,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Seeds,
Bush Tetras,
Mantronix,
Eric Dolphy,
Yazoo,
Ultimate Spinach,
Loose Ends,
CMW,
Infiniti,
Man Eating Sloth,
Henry Cow,
Grauzone,
Robert Görl,
Gabor Szabo,
JFA,
Sällskapet,
Country Teasers,
Joey Negro,
Sun Ra,
The Gap Band,
Underground Resistance,
Harmonia,
The Pop Group,
Barclay James Harvest,
Interpol,
Lyres,
The Fall,
Public Image Ltd.,
Reuben Wilson,
The Raincoats,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
the Slits,
The Fugs,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Flash Fearless,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Funky Four + One,
Iggy Pop,
Agent Orange,
Sex Pistols,
Fat Boys,
The Zeros,
Aaron Thompson,
The Stooges,
Stereo Dub,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Reagan Youth,
Royal Trux,
Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger.
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.