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 Australia and from Lyon.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Masters at Work to the electroclash 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 The Red Krayola. All the underground hits.
All James Chance & The Contortions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maurizio 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roger Hodgson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Babytalk,
Groovy Waters,
Donald Byrd,
Altered Images,
Bill Wells,
Stereo Dub,
Agent Orange,
the Germs,
Index,
Nico,
Janne Schatter,
T. Rex,
Ossler,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Index,
The Mojo Men,
Zapp,
Black Sheep,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Maleditus Sound,
Adolescents,
Quantec,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Erasure,
Roy Ayers,
Joy Division,
Gichy Dan,
Traffic Nightmare,
Negative Approach,
Tears for Fears,
Prince Buster,
Zero Boys,
Jeff Lynne,
Sonic Youth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Robert Wyatt,
Robert Görl,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Marc Almond,
Archie Shepp,
Carl Craig,
Lakeside,
New Order,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Heaven 17,
Cal Tjader,
The Gap Band,
The American Breed,
Todd Terry,
Sparks,
Eric Dolphy,
Livin' Joy,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Toni Rubio,
The Vogues,
Frankie Knuckles,
Desert Stars,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ultravox,
World's Most,
Erykah Badu,
Eurythmics,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish.
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.