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 Serbia and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Carl Craig to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All Freddie Wadling tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Buckinghams record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Vogues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sound Behaviour,
Rod Modell,
X-101,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Pop Group,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Litter,
The Angels of Light,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Toni Rubio,
Jeff Lynne,
Gastr Del Sol,
Stockholm Monsters,
Glenn Branca,
Cybotron,
The Cowsills,
Big Daddy Kane,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Eli Mardock,
The Gun Club,
Icehouse,
Metal Thangz,
Roger Hodgson,
The Tremeloes,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Motorama,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Los Fastidios,
The Music Machine,
Sarah Menescal,
Audionom,
Matthew Bourne,
The Remains,
Donald Byrd,
The United States of America,
Moss Icon,
The Birthday Party,
June of 44,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Sonics,
Girls At Our Best!,
the Soft Cell,
Amazonics,
Pylon,
Soft Machine,
Bang On A Can,
Aural Exciters,
Henry Cow,
Amon Düül,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Masters at Work,
Massinfluence,
Ituana,
Warsaw,
Procol Harum,
In Retrospect,
The Doobie Brothers,
Half Japanese,
Nico,
The Human League,
Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach.
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.