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 Bolivia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 organ 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 Radiopuhelimet to the disco 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 Lucky Dragons. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Traffic Nightmare 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Louis and Bebe Barron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reagan Youth,
Niagra,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Moleskins,
Dennis Brown,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Soul Sonic Force,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Gladiators,
Girls At Our Best!,
Mad Mike,
Jawbox,
Josef K,
Jacques Brel,
Sonny Sharrock,
UT,
Panda Bear,
Bang On A Can,
Juan Atkins,
Royal Trux,
The Invisible,
Anthony Braxton,
The Durutti Column,
The Standells,
Amon Düül,
The Mummies,
Dave Gahan,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Walker Brothers,
Public Enemy,
Ken Boothe,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Underground Resistance,
Wings,
Excepter,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Neil Young,
Janne Schatter,
Yusef Lateef,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
the Germs,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Tremeloes,
Hashim,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
New Order,
Ronnie Foster,
Amon Düül II,
Minnie Riperton,
Scan 7,
Ronan,
Scratch Acid,
Piero Umiliani,
Peter and Kerry,
Moby Grape,
Vainqueur,
Von Mondo,
Slave,
Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies.
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.