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 Nauru and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the theremin 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 Jerry's Kids to the dance 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 Agent Orange. All the underground hits.
All Audionom tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scrapy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joy Division record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun City Girls,
The Leaves,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Agent Orange,
Siglo XX,
the Germs,
Sarah Menescal,
Gastr Del Sol,
Q and Not U,
New Age Steppers,
cv313,
Lyres,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
a-ha,
Bobby Womack,
June Days,
Crash Course in Science,
The Durutti Column,
Shuggie Otis,
Radio Birdman,
Yazoo,
Yaz,
Babytalk,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Stereo Dub,
Guru Guru,
The Flesh Eaters,
Desert Stars,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Panda Bear,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Slits,
Judy Mowatt,
Easy Going,
Junior Murvin,
The Offenders,
the Human League,
The Dead C,
Porter Ricks,
The Moody Blues,
Scott Walker,
Duran Duran,
Whodini,
Technova,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Hasil Adkins,
U.S. Maple,
The Martian,
Jawbox,
Robert Wyatt,
In Retrospect,
Roxette,
Simply Red,
Fad Gadget,
Scientists,
Masters at Work,
Inner City,
The Smiths,
Flamin' Groovies,
Massinfluence,
Sugar Minott,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
La Düsseldorf,
EPMD, EPMD, EPMD, EPMD.
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.