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 Bulgaria and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Sonic Youth to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Hot Snakes. All the underground hits.
All Jandek tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Near record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ohio Players,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Alphaville,
Altered Images,
Zero Boys,
Jeff Lynne,
Eden Ahbez,
Archie Shepp,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Velvet Underground,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Minor Threat,
Joensuu 1685,
The Tremeloes,
Moby Grape,
DJ Style,
Howard Jones,
Jimmy McGriff,
Young Marble Giants,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Human League,
Rotary Connection,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Delta 5,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Five Americans,
MC5,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Angels of Light,
Maurizio,
Infiniti,
The Happenings,
The Move,
Bobby Byrd,
The Pretty Things,
Wings,
Peter and Kerry,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Litter,
Ludus,
Pere Ubu,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Talk Talk,
The Mummies,
Leonard Cohen,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Marcia Griffiths,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Surgeon,
Bang On A Can,
The Alarm Clocks,
Ultimate Spinach,
the Germs,
Donald Byrd,
Ituana,
the Soft Cell,
Gang Starr,
Roxette,
Soft Cell,
Bobbi Humphrey,
One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish.
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.