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 United States and from Manchester.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 theremin 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 Fifty Foot Hose to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Lungfish. All the underground hits.
All Minutemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Clear Light,
Sex Pistols,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Hardrive,
Sarah Menescal,
DJ Style,
AZ,
X-Ray Spex,
Silicon Teens,
The Litter,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Rod Modell,
Sixth Finger,
Wally Richardson,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Prince Buster,
Terry Callier,
Main Source,
Isaac Hayes,
Spandau Ballet,
Skriet,
PIL,
Monolake,
The Cowsills,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Delta 5,
Television,
Pulsallama,
Joe Smooth,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Mary Jane Girls,
Aaron Thompson,
Organ,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Girls At Our Best!,
Mark Hollis,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Mandrill,
Eurythmics,
Amon Düül,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Sonics,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Rosa Yemen,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Liliput,
Heaven 17,
Sun City Girls,
The Offenders,
The American Breed,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sonic Youth,
Charles Mingus,
Darondo,
Supertramp,
Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay.
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.