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 Andorra and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Panda Bear to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All Tubeway Army tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Young Rascals record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scan 7,
Toni Rubio,
Tommy Roe,
UT,
Boz Scaggs,
David Axelrod,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Young Marble Giants,
The Residents,
Echospace,
Pet Shop Boys,
Marvin Gaye,
The Standells,
E-Dancer,
Soul Sonic Force,
Con Funk Shun,
Tom Boy,
Patti Smith,
The Offenders,
Joey Negro,
Reagan Youth,
AZ,
Jimmy McGriff,
Todd Terry,
Amazonics,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Das Ding,
X-Ray Spex,
Donny Hathaway,
Rod Modell,
The Vogues,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
World's Most,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
June Days,
Maleditus Sound,
The Cowsills,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Tres Demented,
Mars,
Ken Boothe,
Q65,
The Music Machine,
Thompson Twins,
Aloha Tigers,
Darondo,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Fire Engines,
Angry Samoans,
The Shadows of Knight,
This Heat,
Steve Hackett,
Mantronix,
Sam Rivers,
Crispy Ambulance,
Rapeman,
LL Cool J,
Stereo Dub,
The Raincoats,
Wings,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.