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 Thailand and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 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 The Young Rascals to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Quando Quango. All the underground hits.
All Flipper tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aaron Thompson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a H. Thieme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
In Retrospect,
Aswad,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Monolake,
Angry Samoans,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lungfish,
Agent Orange,
Gang Green,
Organ,
The Tremeloes,
The Litter,
Swans,
Man Parrish,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Dead Boys,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Adolescents,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Stetsasonic,
Flash Fearless,
Cal Tjader,
Jacques Brel,
Bootsy Collins,
Eddi Front,
Sugar Minott,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Birthday Party,
Joey Negro,
Unwound,
Joe Smooth,
Chris & Cosey,
Connie Case,
Desert Stars,
Derrick Morgan,
Skarface,
Cabaret Voltaire,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Siglo XX,
Scott Walker,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Barbara Tucker,
Jacob Miller,
H. Thieme,
48th St. Collective,
Chrome,
Ken Boothe,
Barclay James Harvest,
Henry Cow,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Iggy Pop,
Schoolly D,
Babytalk,
Funkadelic,
John Cale,
Massinfluence,
Maleditus Sound,
Jandek,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Neil Young,
Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson.
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.