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 Italy and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 808 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 Mary Jane Girls to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Evens. All the underground hits.
All The Red Krayola tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crash Course in Science record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yusef Lateef record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiopuhelimet,
Amon Düül,
Moss Icon,
Flash Fearless,
Loose Ends,
The Durutti Column,
Gerry Rafferty,
Davy DMX,
Gang Green,
Surgeon,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Kerrie Biddell,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Sound,
Jeff Lynne,
LL Cool J,
The Smoke,
Barbara Tucker,
T.S.O.L.,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
the Sonics,
Panda Bear,
Tomorrow,
Eddi Front,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Derrick Morgan,
Suburban Knight,
Byron Stingily,
Skarface,
Joe Smooth,
Theoretical Girls,
Von Mondo,
Sällskapet,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Basic Channel,
The Fortunes,
Eric Dolphy,
the Normal,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Agitation Free,
Das Ding,
Scan 7,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Delta 5,
Robert Hood,
Procol Harum,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sonic Youth,
JFA,
David Bowie,
The Doors,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Star Department,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Soulsonic Force,
Chris & Cosey,
Echospace,
Little Man, Little Man, Little Man, Little Man.
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.