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 Kenya and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
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 Drive Like Jehu to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Fugazi tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rapeman 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arcadia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare,
The Gap Band,
Youth Brigade,
Reagan Youth,
H. Thieme,
Ralphi Rosario,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Delta 5,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Count Five,
Joy Division,
Scan 7,
Franke,
Fat Boys,
The Monochrome Set,
Scientists,
Eddi Front,
The Raincoats,
10cc,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Depeche Mode,
Symarip,
Johnny Clarke,
David Bowie,
Derrick Morgan,
Morten Harket,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Jesper Dahlback,
A Certain Ratio,
Black Flag,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Guru Guru,
Parry Music,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Japan,
Silicon Teens,
Girls At Our Best!,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Amazonics,
The Birthday Party,
Y Pants,
FM Einheit,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Funkadelic,
Dorothy Ashby,
Tropical Tobacco,
Brick,
Warsaw,
Arab on Radar,
Steve Hackett,
The Victims,
Porter Ricks,
the Soft Cell,
The Selecter,
Eli Mardock,
John Coltrane,
Theoretical Girls,
Sun Ra,
kango's stein massive,
Maurizio,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.