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 Israel and from Portland.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 harpsichord 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 The Evens to the punk 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 Slackers. All the underground hits.
All Vainqueur tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cure record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reagan Youth 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?
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Bush Tetras,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sonic Youth,
Kayak,
Kenny Larkin,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Swans,
Deadbeat,
Scott Walker,
H. Thieme,
Scion,
Nico,
Alison Limerick,
Niagra,
Vladislav Delay,
Simply Red,
Leonard Cohen,
Arcadia,
The Count Five,
Ralphi Rosario,
Tim Buckley,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Dawn Penn,
Sarah Menescal,
kango's stein massive,
Parry Music,
Outsiders,
Bobby Byrd,
Crispian St. Peters,
Bootsy Collins,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Maurizio,
10cc,
Avey Tare,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Black Moon,
The Music Machine,
Harpers Bizarre,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Subhumans,
The Pretty Things,
Slave,
The Sound,
Rufus Thomas,
Gabor Szabo,
Terry Callier,
The Busters,
Country Teasers,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Japan,
Eli Mardock,
Susan Cadogan,
The Divine Comedy,
Underground Resistance,
The Gories,
Suburban Knight, Suburban Knight, Suburban Knight, Suburban Knight.
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.