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 Grenada and from Seoul.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Bill Near to the disco 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 Depeche Mode. All the underground hits.
All The Mummies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glambeats Corp. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brass Construction record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Wyatt,
T. Rex,
Tommy Roe,
Intrusion,
Pantaleimon,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Remains,
Main Source,
Susan Cadogan,
The Beau Brummels,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Marmalade,
The New Christs,
Qualms,
This Heat,
The Gladiators,
The Young Rascals,
Sonny Sharrock,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Crash Course in Science,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Jeff Mills,
Technova,
Sarah Menescal,
Essential Logic,
Leonard Cohen,
Chris & Cosey,
Throbbing Gristle,
Skaos,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Radiopuhelimet,
Amon Düül II,
Crispy Ambulance,
Lalann,
The Five Americans,
Glenn Branca,
Junior Murvin,
Royal Trux,
Sällskapet,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Youth Brigade,
Boz Scaggs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Yusef Lateef,
Khruangbin,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Dead Boys,
Aloha Tigers,
Simply Red,
Flipper,
Groovy Waters,
The Real Kids,
Monolake,
The J.B.'s,
Echospace,
Joe Smooth,
Bad Manners,
Sonic Youth,
Banda Bassotti,
Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash.
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.