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 Australia and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Liliput to the crunk 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 The Busters. All the underground hits.
All Ossler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aural Exciters 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Red Krayola record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin 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?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Kayak,
The Offenders,
Y Pants,
Jesper Dahlback,
Maleditus Sound,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Flash Fearless,
Accadde A,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Leaves,
Deadbeat,
The Human League,
Kevin Saunderson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Star Department,
Sonic Youth,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Rosa Yemen,
Chris & Cosey,
the Human League,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Marmalade,
The Fortunes,
Sällskapet,
Sound Behaviour,
Iggy Pop,
Isaac Hayes,
Tears for Fears,
Kaleidoscope,
The Gladiators,
Anakelly,
X-101,
Bill Wells,
Nico,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Archie Shepp,
D'Angelo,
DJ Sneak,
The New Christs,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Gun Club,
FM Einheit,
Altered Images,
Dead Boys,
Au Pairs,
Nas,
The Young Rascals,
Curtis Mayfield,
Ken Boothe,
X-Ray Spex,
Neil Young,
Radio Birdman,
Amon Düül II,
The Trojans,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Second Layer,
Sixth Finger,
The Tremeloes,
the Germs,
The Victims,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
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.