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 Cyprus and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 Shanghai and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Excepter to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Banda Bassotti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacob Miller record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bluetip,
the Association,
Mad Mike,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Skatalites,
The Divine Comedy,
Robert Görl,
Bill Wells,
Depeche Mode,
Leonard Cohen,
Agitation Free,
The Dave Clark Five,
ABC,
Lungfish,
Bronski Beat,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jandek,
The Durutti Column,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Leaves,
Crime,
Arthur Verocai,
48th St. Collective,
DJ Sneak,
Television Personalities,
The Monochrome Set,
The Fuzztones,
Stockholm Monsters,
Groovy Waters,
Glenn Branca,
This Heat,
Minor Threat,
Bob Dylan,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Smiths,
Oblivians,
Main Source,
Ornette Coleman,
The Index,
Kayak,
Chrome,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Dawn Penn,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
EPMD,
Kerri Chandler,
The Wake,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Neon Judgement,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Velvet Underground,
John Lydon,
Malaria!,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Absolute Body Control,
The Trojans,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Laurel Aitken,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sixth Finger,
Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B.
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.