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 Czech Republic and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Lebanon Hanover to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Icehouse. All the underground hits.
All DeepChord presents Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
CMW,
R.M.O.,
The Fugs,
Aloha Tigers,
Swell Maps,
X-101,
Bob Dylan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Pylon,
Basic Channel,
Gregory Isaacs,
Joensuu 1685,
Lebanon Hanover,
James White and The Blacks,
Mary Jane Girls,
Kevin Saunderson,
June Days,
Crash Course in Science,
Country Teasers,
Unwound,
Scientists,
Index,
The Knickerbockers,
The Birthday Party,
The Remains,
Sun Ra,
Talk Talk,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sparks,
The Associates,
Erykah Badu,
Bush Tetras,
Ornette Coleman,
Darondo,
The Wake,
These Immortal Souls,
Jeff Mills,
Crooked Eye,
The Five Americans,
The Zeros,
Jacques Brel,
The Golliwogs,
John Lydon,
Banda Bassotti,
David Bowie,
The Real Kids,
Rakim,
Theoretical Girls,
The Busters,
Matthew Halsall,
Barclay James Harvest,
Scion,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Fat Boys,
MDC,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Tubeway Army,
Khruangbin, Khruangbin, Khruangbin, Khruangbin.
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.