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 Cuba and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Stockholm.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Joensuu 1685 to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 DJ Sneak. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sisters of Mercy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick May,
Idris Muhammad,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Barbara Tucker,
Moebius,
Todd Terry,
Robert Wyatt,
Bobby Byrd,
Scrapy,
10cc,
Talk Talk,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Cramps,
Rufus Thomas,
8 Eyed Spy,
AZ,
Pierre Henry,
Terry Callier,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Pretty Things,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Altered Images,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Hasil Adkins,
The Slackers,
Prince Buster,
The Toasters,
Minnie Riperton,
Accadde A,
The Real Kids,
Wings,
New Age Steppers,
Buzzcocks,
Nils Olav,
Gabor Szabo,
Unrelated Segments,
The Smoke,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Stooges,
Suburban Knight,
Max Romeo,
World's Most,
Ultravox,
Essential Logic,
The Gun Club,
the Germs,
Pantytec,
Radio Birdman,
June of 44,
The J.B.'s,
Negative Approach,
Oblivians,
The Move,
Chrome,
These Immortal Souls,
James White and The Blacks,
Warsaw,
Schoolly D,
Cecil Taylor,
Gang Starr,
Oneida,
Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer.
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.