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 Micronesia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Angels of Light to the funk 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 Supertramp. All the underground hits.
All Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Justin Hinds & The Dominoes 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flamin' Groovies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Khruangbin,
Pantytec,
The Detroit Cobras,
Eurythmics,
OOIOO,
Toni Rubio,
Alphaville,
New Order,
Letta Mbulu,
Rekid,
Sex Pistols,
A Certain Ratio,
The Golliwogs,
Bobby Sherman,
Supertramp,
Soft Cell,
Agent Orange,
Dave Gahan,
Technova,
Harry Pussy,
Loose Ends,
Barry Ungar,
Animal Collective,
Second Layer,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
the Normal,
the Sonics,
Cybotron,
Little Man,
Chris & Cosey,
Lungfish,
Pussy Galore,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Eric Copeland,
Rufus Thomas,
Marc Almond,
Sonny Sharrock,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Camberwell Now,
Sarah Menescal,
Crispian St. Peters,
Basic Channel,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cheater Slicks,
Yellowson,
Minnie Riperton,
The Move,
Oneida,
Joe Finger,
AZ,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Pet Shop Boys,
Outsiders,
Donny Hathaway,
Aural Exciters,
Rapeman,
John Foxx,
Panda Bear,
The Star Department,
Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound.
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.