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 Tunisia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 sitar 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 Reagan Youth to the funk 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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Delon & Dalcan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fluxion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cluster,
Parry Music,
These Immortal Souls,
Goldenarms,
The Dave Clark Five,
Skriet,
Scrapy,
cv313,
Peter & Gordon,
In Retrospect,
H. Thieme,
Buzzcocks,
Bill Near,
Malaria!,
Leonard Cohen,
Mars,
Morten Harket,
Toni Rubio,
The Fortunes,
Donny Hathaway,
Janne Schatter,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Crime,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Warren Ellis,
Ultravox,
Arthur Verocai,
The Neon Judgement,
The Barracudas,
DJ Sneak,
The Star Department,
Neil Young,
Funkadelic,
Nico,
Ossler,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Fuzztones,
Rhythm & Sound,
Lightning Bolt,
The Music Machine,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Hasil Adkins,
Make Up,
The Flesh Eaters,
Thompson Twins,
Monolake,
Silicon Teens,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Iggy Pop,
kango's stein massive,
The Fugs,
Talk Talk,
Mantronix,
Supertramp,
Vladislav Delay,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Pole,
The Motions,
Eurythmics,
Harmonia,
Man Eating Sloth,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.