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 Nauru and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the theremin 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 Country Teasers to the grunge 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 Aaron Thompson. All the underground hits.
All Eddi Front tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Techniques 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tom Boy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lebanon Hanover,
The Trojans,
Nick Fraelich,
Radiohead,
Khruangbin,
the Fania All-Stars,
Ronnie Foster,
The Detroit Cobras,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Beau Brummels,
Vladislav Delay,
Lee Hazlewood,
Skaos,
David Bowie,
Erykah Badu,
Flash Fearless,
Eric Copeland,
Nas,
Derrick Morgan,
Boogie Down Productions,
Anthony Braxton,
Slick Rick,
Aaron Thompson,
JFA,
Skriet,
Excepter,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Standells,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
the Normal,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Neon Judgement,
The Monochrome Set,
Barclay James Harvest,
Spandau Ballet,
Basic Channel,
Mr. Review,
Pet Shop Boys,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Slits,
Howard Jones,
Dave Gahan,
Funkadelic,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mantronix,
Lucky Dragons,
Tears for Fears,
Fad Gadget,
The Smoke,
The Stooges,
Quantec,
Alison Limerick,
Roger Hodgson,
Pylon,
Swell Maps,
Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine.
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.