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 Panama and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Milan.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Alphaville to the punk 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 Faraquet. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bob Dylan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Main Source,
D'Angelo,
Crash Course in Science,
Soulsonic Force,
Lou Christie,
Saccharine Trust,
Grauzone,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Fugs,
Jesper Dahlback,
Deepchord,
June Days,
Ludus,
Pulsallama,
Peter & Gordon,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Wake,
Wolf Eyes,
Stereo Dub,
Anthony Braxton,
The Knickerbockers,
the Soft Cell,
Yusef Lateef,
Mr. Review,
David Bowie,
Black Moon,
Radio Birdman,
Can,
Groovy Waters,
The Beau Brummels,
Quando Quango,
John Coltrane,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Martian,
The Divine Comedy,
Unrelated Segments,
The Birthday Party,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Chris Corsano,
Vainqueur,
Gregory Isaacs,
Gong,
Reagan Youth,
Jandek,
Ituana,
The Doobie Brothers,
Minny Pops,
Marshall Jefferson,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Make Up,
Minnie Riperton,
Rites of Spring,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Second Layer,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan.
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.