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 Uzbekistan and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the theremin 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 MC5 to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Pantaleimon. All the underground hits.
All The Offenders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jesper Dahlback 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Talk Talk,
Public Enemy,
The Buckinghams,
Grauzone,
Pere Ubu,
Schoolly D,
Cybotron,
Dawn Penn,
Metal Thangz,
Sandy B,
Nirvana,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Con Funk Shun,
Delon & Dalcan,
Icehouse,
Kerri Chandler,
The Cure,
Boogie Down Productions,
Crash Course in Science,
Janne Schatter,
Scott Walker,
Brick,
Kool Moe Dee,
Ken Boothe,
Susan Cadogan,
Chris & Cosey,
The Trojans,
Charles Mingus,
The Selecter,
Peter and Kerry,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Yazoo,
R.M.O.,
David Bowie,
Connie Case,
Chris Corsano,
The Skatalites,
Boredoms,
Scion,
cv313,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Audionom,
Warren Ellis,
Ultravox,
Mars,
Massinfluence,
Saccharine Trust,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sister Nancy,
Tomorrow,
Sonic Youth,
Jeff Mills,
the Normal,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Tres Demented,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Mo-Dettes,
Groovy Waters,
Hoover,
Letta Mbulu,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Angels of Light,
The Young Rascals,
Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet.
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.