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 Saudi Arabia and from Manila.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Nico to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Eric Dolphy. All the underground hits.
All Faust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ossler 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Soft Cell,
MDC,
Kas Product,
The Human League,
Frankie Knuckles,
Joe Smooth,
Sonic Youth,
Kerri Chandler,
Black Flag,
Scott Walker,
Boogie Down Productions,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Lebanon Hanover,
David McCallum,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Supertramp,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Nas,
Livin' Joy,
Max Romeo,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
DJ Style,
Aural Exciters,
Saccharine Trust,
Harmonia,
Hasil Adkins,
Yellowson,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Rhythm & Sound,
LL Cool J,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Zero Boys,
The Fire Engines,
The Sonics,
The Doobie Brothers,
La Düsseldorf,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Dorothy Ashby,
Todd Terry,
Jeff Lynne,
Davy DMX,
Deepchord,
Quando Quango,
Index,
Oneida,
The Gun Club,
Pantaleimon,
DJ Sneak,
Sixth Finger,
Mantronix,
The Smiths,
The Associates,
Q65,
Barbara Tucker,
Groovy Waters,
Scratch Acid,
Bizarre Inc.,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye.
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.