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 Swaziland and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Camberwell Now to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Television. All the underground hits.
All The Velvet Underground tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Half Japanese record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a FM Einheit record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxette,
Sarah Menescal,
Iggy Pop,
Technova,
Royal Trux,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Five Americans,
Black Bananas,
Ice-T,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
LL Cool J,
CMW,
Yellowson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Little Man,
Steve Hackett,
Ken Boothe,
Suburban Knight,
48th St. Collective,
Lakeside,
The Monks,
Roger Hodgson,
Nation of Ulysses,
Cheater Slicks,
The Wake,
Mad Mike,
Panda Bear,
Derrick May,
Main Source,
Max Romeo,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Arcadia,
Joyce Sims,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Television Personalities,
The Gun Club,
Trumans Water,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Smog,
Minutemen,
Marcia Griffiths,
Jawbox,
Girls At Our Best!,
Zapp,
Fluxion,
Niagra,
the Bar-Kays,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Ronan,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Junior Murvin,
Arab on Radar,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Shoche,
David Axelrod,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Sisters of Mercy,
R.M.O.,
Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag.
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.