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 Dominica and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the snare 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 Fall to the punk 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 Sun City Girls. All the underground hits.
All Monolake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Infiniti record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Roger Hodgson,
Sun Ra,
Sarah Menescal,
Gang Gang Dance,
Deepchord,
Rod Modell,
X-Ray Spex,
Cheater Slicks,
Tim Buckley,
the Germs,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Invisible,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Seeds,
The Five Americans,
T.S.O.L.,
The Index,
Arcadia,
James White and The Blacks,
Ten City,
The Happenings,
Funky Four + One,
Excepter,
Ohio Players,
JFA,
Babytalk,
Zero Boys,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Danielle Patucci,
Joensuu 1685,
John Cale,
Mo-Dettes,
Glambeats Corp.,
FM Einheit,
Ituana,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gong,
Jerry's Kids,
One Last Wish,
Faust,
Flash Fearless,
Man Parrish,
Infiniti,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Moleskins,
Glenn Branca,
Amon Düül,
John Foxx,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Kas Product,
Tommy Roe,
Whodini,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Eurythmics,
Nas,
Drive Like Jehu,
Man Eating Sloth,
Rhythm & Sound,
Kayak, Kayak, Kayak, Kayak.
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.