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 Georgia and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Philadelphia.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Names to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Moss Icon. All the underground hits.
All Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every UT record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bill Wells,
Gang of Four,
Loose Ends,
The Slackers,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Rod Modell,
Second Layer,
Thompson Twins,
Eve St. Jones,
The Velvet Underground,
Sällskapet,
Interpol,
The Angels of Light,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Archie Shepp,
The Trojans,
Roxy Music,
The Durutti Column,
Traffic Nightmare,
Erasure,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
New Age Steppers,
Delon & Dalcan,
Cal Tjader,
The Count Five,
Spandau Ballet,
Pole,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Yellowson,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Selecter,
Slick Rick,
Donald Byrd,
ABBA,
Jesper Dahlback,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Funky Four + One,
Peter and Kerry,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Gregory Isaacs,
Moby Grape,
Jeff Lynne,
Joe Finger,
Siglo XX,
Dead Boys,
The Slits,
the Normal,
The Misunderstood,
Brothers Johnson,
Q65,
Talk Talk,
Jeff Mills,
These Immortal Souls,
Aloha Tigers,
Roger Hodgson,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Minor Threat,
Hardrive,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish.
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.