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 El Salvador and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Seoul.
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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the organ 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 Unrelated Segments to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Terrestrial Tones. All the underground hits.
All Bauhaus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mandrill record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stockholm Monsters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Angry Samoans,
Tubeway Army,
a-ha,
Tomorrow,
E-Dancer,
Lee Hazlewood,
DNA,
ABBA,
The Saints,
Maurizio,
Joyce Sims,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Moby Grape,
Josef K,
PIL,
Crash Course in Science,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Spandau Ballet,
Arthur Verocai,
The Gap Band,
MC5,
Swell Maps,
Boredoms,
Parry Music,
Marshall Jefferson,
Pet Shop Boys,
B.T. Express,
Fatback Band,
The J.B.'s,
Eden Ahbez,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Scion,
Danielle Patucci,
The Busters,
Robert Görl,
Rod Modell,
Qualms,
Panda Bear,
Leonard Cohen,
Bill Near,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Dark Day,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Erykah Badu,
T. Rex,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Organ,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Camouflage,
Peter and Kerry,
Girls At Our Best!,
Japan,
Niagra,
John Coltrane,
Von Mondo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.