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 Korea South and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Kas Product to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Barbara Tucker. All the underground hits.
All The Real Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harmonia 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Teasers,
New Order,
Technova,
Alison Limerick,
Jandek,
Carl Craig,
DJ Style,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Residents,
The Saints,
Sound Behaviour,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Morten Harket,
Babytalk,
Agent Orange,
Animal Collective,
Siglo XX,
Leonard Cohen,
Mr. Review,
Sam Rivers,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Agitation Free,
Chris Corsano,
Groovy Waters,
UT,
Isaac Hayes,
Pulsallama,
The Star Department,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Bluetip,
Rapeman,
Arcadia,
The Beau Brummels,
Susan Cadogan,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Grauzone,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Fortunes,
OOIOO,
The Knickerbockers,
Ice-T,
Marc Almond,
Minutemen,
The Zeros,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Soulsonic Force,
Crispy Ambulance,
Vainqueur,
Robert Görl,
Gang Green,
Joy Division,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Erasure,
Model 500,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sarah Menescal,
Tommy Roe,
Eli Mardock,
Marine Girls,
David Axelrod,
Wasted Youth,
Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe.
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.