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 Marshall Islands and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 The Seeds to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Neu!. All the underground hits.
All The United States of America tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roy Ayers Ubiquity record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Japan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Popol Vuh,
Neil Young,
Radio Birdman,
Liliput,
Flash Fearless,
UT,
Soft Machine,
Arcadia,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Heaven 17,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Essential Logic,
The Smiths,
Barbara Tucker,
Depeche Mode,
Arab on Radar,
The Five Americans,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Althea and Donna,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Sound,
the Slits,
Cheater Slicks,
Arthur Verocai,
Marvin Gaye,
EPMD,
The Residents,
R.M.O.,
Basic Channel,
The Toasters,
The Detroit Cobras,
Bill Wells,
Dual Sessions,
Silicon Teens,
Animal Collective,
The Cure,
Dave Gahan,
The Motions,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
John Foxx,
Skaos,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Black Flag,
La Düsseldorf,
ABBA,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Bobby Sherman,
Sugar Minott,
Radiohead,
The Moody Blues,
The Dave Clark Five,
Robert Görl,
Infiniti,
Prince Buster,
Ponytail,
Godley & Creme,
Boogie Down Productions,
Mantronix,
Lalo Schifrin,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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.