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 the UAE and from Delhi.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 theremin 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 Bobby Sherman to the electroclash 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 DNA. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Outsiders,
Charles Mingus,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Massinfluence,
Skriet,
Harmonia,
The Moody Blues,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lindisfarne,
Unwound,
Young Marble Giants,
Panda Bear,
the Swans,
Bluetip,
Bad Manners,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Fat Boys,
X-101,
Sam Rivers,
Zero Boys,
Scott Walker,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
John Foxx,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Fluxion,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Birthday Party,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Seeds,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Eric Dolphy,
Pantytec,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Skaos,
Main Source,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Moleskins,
Barrington Levy,
Lucky Dragons,
The Human League,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
MDC,
Pussy Galore,
AZ,
Dennis Brown,
Yazoo,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
New Order,
a-ha,
Crispian St. Peters,
Section 25,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Roxette,
Lyres,
Darondo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station.
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.