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 Iran and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Icehouse to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Organ. All the underground hits.
All Tom Boy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick May record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Copeland record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pussy Galore,
Eve St. Jones,
EPMD,
Joe Finger,
Byron Stingily,
Country Teasers,
The Young Rascals,
FM Einheit,
Echospace,
Spoonie Gee,
Buzzcocks,
The Skatalites,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Chrome,
the Slits,
In Retrospect,
Schoolly D,
Peter and Kerry,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Trumans Water,
Bronski Beat,
The Last Poets,
The Fall,
Pierre Henry,
Oblivians,
The Fugs,
Brothers Johnson,
Fad Gadget,
Von Mondo,
Roxette,
Eurythmics,
The Gories,
The Mojo Men,
John Lydon,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Surgeon,
Saccharine Trust,
Hardrive,
Minny Pops,
Black Flag,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Rod Modell,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Susan Cadogan,
Lower 48,
Sandy B,
Kayak,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Wally Richardson,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Busters,
Mantronix,
Gong,
Roger Hodgson,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Delon & Dalcan,
Drive Like Jehu,
Faraquet,
Gregory Isaacs,
Aural Exciters,
The Real Kids,
The Star Department,
Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A.
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.