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 Armenia and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the organ 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 China Crisis to the disco 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 Japan. All the underground hits.
All New Order tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Neon Judgement 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MDC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Selecter,
Slick Rick,
Chrome,
The Victims,
The Gap Band,
Peter and Kerry,
This Heat,
Neu!,
Das Ding,
48th St. Collective,
Faust,
Skarface,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Judy Mowatt,
Intrusion,
Urselle,
Little Man,
Sam Rivers,
Country Teasers,
Mo-Dettes,
Absolute Body Control,
The Fortunes,
The Busters,
The Leaves,
Glambeats Corp.,
Maurizio,
OOIOO,
Hardrive,
The United States of America,
Brass Construction,
Camberwell Now,
Crooked Eye,
The Moleskins,
Nation of Ulysses,
Sister Nancy,
kango's stein massive,
Cecil Taylor,
the Germs,
Black Pus,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Cheater Slicks,
Harmonia,
Mission of Burma,
Joey Negro,
The Monks,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Toasters,
Technova,
Gang Green,
Janne Schatter,
Nils Olav,
The Flesh Eaters,
Pere Ubu,
Essential Logic,
Brand Nubian,
X-Ray Spex,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Index,
Silicon Teens,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.