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 Sweden and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Manchester.
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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin 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 Animal Collective to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Kango’s Stein Massive. All the underground hits.
All Michelle Simonal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Toni Rubio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Remains,
Wings,
Half Japanese,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Stereo Dub,
The Gap Band,
the Swans,
Kevin Saunderson,
Fat Boys,
T.S.O.L.,
Freddie Wadling,
Youth Brigade,
The Barracudas,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Moleskins,
Letta Mbulu,
Vainqueur,
Cal Tjader,
Blake Baxter,
the Germs,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Spandau Ballet,
Duran Duran,
Frankie Knuckles,
Absolute Body Control,
The Shadows of Knight,
Mad Mike,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Electric Prunes,
Eddi Front,
Nirvana,
The Dead C,
Lebanon Hanover,
Franke,
Banda Bassotti,
Bob Dylan,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Gastr Del Sol,
Eric Copeland,
Suicide,
Fad Gadget,
Sixth Finger,
The Busters,
Colin Newman,
Scientists,
Marcia Griffiths,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Kinks,
Donny Hathaway,
Groovy Waters,
Warsaw,
Prince Buster,
Desert Stars,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Skarface,
Minutemen,
Stockholm Monsters,
Steve Hackett,
The Electric Prunes,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope.
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.