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 Uruguay and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Delhi.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Dark Day to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Peter and Kerry. All the underground hits.
All Yellowson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nils Olav record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Urselle record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
The Kinks,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Amon Düül,
Gil Scott Heron,
Delon & Dalcan,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Beau Brummels,
Barry Ungar,
Eli Mardock,
Chris Corsano,
Sun Ra,
The Mummies,
The Doobie Brothers,
Tubeway Army,
Underground Resistance,
Model 500,
Scott Walker,
Index,
Funky Four + One,
Altered Images,
DNA,
Joe Smooth,
Byron Stingily,
John Holt,
Sandy B,
In Retrospect,
The Associates,
Blake Baxter,
Agent Orange,
Oneida,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Urselle,
Boz Scaggs,
Youth Brigade,
AZ,
Aaron Thompson,
Metal Thangz,
Grey Daturas,
Freddie Wadling,
E-Dancer,
The Stooges,
The Blackbyrds,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Agitation Free,
Infiniti,
kango's stein massive,
Marine Girls,
Roy Ayers,
The Pop Group,
the Sonics,
Rakim,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Main Source,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Quadrant,
Rites of Spring,
Johnny Clarke,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Gregory Isaacs,
Rekid,
X-101, X-101, X-101, X-101.
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.