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 Sudan and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Woodstock.
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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the clarinet 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 The Associates to the disco 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 Masters at Work. All the underground hits.
All Ronan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun City Girls 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
Radio Birdman,
10cc,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
One Last Wish,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Alison Limerick,
F. McDonald,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Pole,
Severed Heads,
David McCallum,
Ice-T,
Tomorrow,
Crooked Eye,
U.S. Maple,
JFA,
The Electric Prunes,
The Associates,
World's Most,
The Busters,
The Knickerbockers,
Nick Fraelich,
The Cure,
Danielle Patucci,
Parry Music,
The Victims,
The Wake,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Skaos,
China Crisis,
Traffic Nightmare,
Neil Young,
Eden Ahbez,
cv313,
Underground Resistance,
Delon & Dalcan,
Faust,
Sex Pistols,
Buzzcocks,
Pylon,
The Walker Brothers,
Dennis Brown,
Robert Görl,
Ken Boothe,
June of 44,
Connie Case,
Derrick May,
Gong,
Scrapy,
48th St. Collective,
Frankie Knuckles,
Matthew Bourne,
Animal Collective,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Radiohead,
Moebius,
These Immortal Souls,
The Flesh Eaters,
Henry Cow,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lightning Bolt,
The Searchers,
Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger.
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.