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 Yemen and from Woodstock.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Joy Division to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 U.S. Maple. All the underground hits.
All The Offenders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Misunderstood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Underground Resistance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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?
Girls At Our Best!,
U.S. Maple,
Lakeside,
Joe Finger,
The Birthday Party,
Judy Mowatt,
Rakim,
Blancmange,
Archie Shepp,
Newcleus,
Unwound,
Bob Dylan,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Magazine,
Nirvana,
The Dead C,
Scott Walker,
Arcadia,
JFA,
Lower 48,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Joey Negro,
Anthony Braxton,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Pantytec,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sun Ra,
Motorama,
the Sonics,
Altered Images,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Fugazi,
Kerri Chandler,
Stetsasonic,
The Wake,
Mary Jane Girls,
Gerry Rafferty,
Alice Coltrane,
Wally Richardson,
Parry Music,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Stiv Bators,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Agitation Free,
Ultimate Spinach,
Suicide,
Radiopuhelimet,
Animal Collective,
Silicon Teens,
The Kinks,
T.S.O.L.,
Kurtis Blow,
Electric Prunes,
Neil Young,
Dawn Penn,
New Order,
The Trojans,
Dorothy Ashby,
Todd Terry,
Ponytail,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments.
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.