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 Syria and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Radiohead to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Gil Scott Heron. All the underground hits.
All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Evens record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Shadows of Knight,
Neu!,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Gastr Del Sol,
Lakeside,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Star Department,
The Mummies,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dawn Penn,
JFA,
Bauhaus,
Visage,
Saccharine Trust,
The Blackbyrds,
Wolf Eyes,
The Martian,
The Beau Brummels,
Sandy B,
Mark Hollis,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Jawbox,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Invisible,
Lightning Bolt,
Cameo,
Panda Bear,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Moby Grape,
Kurtis Blow,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Public Enemy,
Index,
Mantronix,
Jandek,
Bang On A Can,
The Real Kids,
X-101,
Royal Trux,
The Gories,
Albert Ayler,
Cymande,
Lyres,
Groovy Waters,
Surgeon,
The United States of America,
Al Stewart,
Cybotron,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Siglo XX,
Pole,
Peter & Gordon,
Dead Boys,
Yazoo,
Alton Ellis,
Nico,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Gong,
Grauzone,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster.
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.