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 Bahrain and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Nils Olav to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Bootsy Collins. All the underground hits.
All The Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camouflage record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rekid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Techniques,
Guru Guru,
Kenny Larkin,
The Detroit Cobras,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Make Up,
Nirvana,
Dead Boys,
The New Christs,
Eli Mardock,
MDC,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lightning Bolt,
a-ha,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Minny Pops,
This Heat,
The Martian,
E-Dancer,
UT,
Spoonie Gee,
Yellowson,
Sarah Menescal,
Sam Rivers,
Radiohead,
Urselle,
The Dirtbombs,
Tommy Roe,
Freddie Wadling,
Brass Construction,
Inner City,
Danielle Patucci,
The Associates,
Glambeats Corp.,
cv313,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Jeff Lynne,
8 Eyed Spy,
Rekid,
Deakin,
Roger Hodgson,
The Blues Magoos,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lalo Schifrin,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Be Bop Deluxe,
World's Most,
the Human League,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Tres Demented,
Joensuu 1685,
Janne Schatter,
Wasted Youth,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Vainqueur,
Trumans Water,
Duran Duran,
Niagra,
Mo-Dettes,
The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas.
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.