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 Peru and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the 808 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 Dead Boys to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Soulsonic Force. All the underground hits.
All OOIOO tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Intrusion 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Severed Heads record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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?
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sarah Menescal,
The Five Americans,
Thompson Twins,
Archie Shepp,
Rekid,
Isaac Hayes,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Moby Grape,
Laurel Aitken,
Wally Richardson,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Q and Not U,
Average White Band,
Kenny Larkin,
The Mummies,
Bang On A Can,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jeff Lynne,
Toni Rubio,
Black Bananas,
The Invisible,
Monolake,
Porter Ricks,
Shoche,
The Cramps,
Black Flag,
Infiniti,
Pantytec,
The Misunderstood,
Gregory Isaacs,
Nirvana,
Minny Pops,
Schoolly D,
Minor Threat,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
In Retrospect,
Lee Hazlewood,
F. McDonald,
The Music Machine,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Vainqueur,
Unwound,
Lakeside,
Girls At Our Best!,
Accadde A,
Half Japanese,
Fugazi,
Marvin Gaye,
Lightning Bolt,
The Fuzztones,
Agitation Free,
The Slits,
Max Romeo,
Organ,
The Buckinghams,
Agent Orange,
Sixth Finger,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Cure,
Wasted Youth,
Chrome, Chrome, Chrome, Chrome.
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.