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 Comoros and from Cairo.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 June Days to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Jawbox. All the underground hits.
All Fear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Laurel Aitken 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Lynne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Duran Duran,
The Barracudas,
Kerrie Biddell,
Howard Jones,
Ten City,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bizarre Inc.,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Gang Gang Dance,
Ituana,
The Cowsills,
Byron Stingily,
Kurtis Blow,
Icehouse,
The Smoke,
The Cure,
Inner City,
EPMD,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Moebius,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Neil Young,
Tears for Fears,
Average White Band,
Lebanon Hanover,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Five Americans,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Minnie Riperton,
Blancmange,
Ponytail,
Tom Boy,
Ohio Players,
Radio Birdman,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Misunderstood,
Intrusion,
UT,
K-Klass,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Alarm Clocks,
Camouflage,
The J.B.'s,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Flipper,
Morten Harket,
Spoonie Gee,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Groovy Waters,
a-ha,
Agent Orange,
Sun Ra,
The Pretty Things,
A Certain Ratio,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
This Heat,
Liliput,
Kerri Chandler,
Alison Limerick,
Fluxion, Fluxion, Fluxion, Fluxion.
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.