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 Moldova and from Tokyo.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
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 Reuben Wilson to the punk 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 Sparks. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ten City record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Cale record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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?
Derrick Morgan,
Gang Starr,
Roy Ayers,
Eric Dolphy,
Das Ding,
Quando Quango,
Animal Collective,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Soul II Soul,
The Cramps,
June Days,
Shoche,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Visage,
Monks,
The Selecter,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Gap Band,
Porter Ricks,
The Leaves,
Shuggie Otis,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Glambeats Corp.,
Lakeside,
Aural Exciters,
The Stooges,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Sound,
The Cowsills,
New Age Steppers,
Skaos,
The Blues Magoos,
Pharoah Sanders,
Pussy Galore,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Move,
The Pop Group,
Niagra,
The Martian,
Suburban Knight,
Bad Manners,
Adolescents,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Vladislav Delay,
Loose Ends,
Jacques Brel,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Mantronix,
The Toasters,
Underground Resistance,
New York Dolls,
The Doors,
Sun City Girls,
Toni Rubio,
Crooked Eye,
Spandau Ballet,
Erasure,
The Residents,
Todd Rundgren,
Hardrive,
The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers.
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.