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 Yemen and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the snare 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 This Heat to the electroclash 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 Lalo Schifrin. All the underground hits.
All Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crooked Eye record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moleskins,
Glenn Branca,
Laurel Aitken,
Iggy Pop,
Susan Cadogan,
Scott Walker,
The Music Machine,
The Barracudas,
China Crisis,
Marshall Jefferson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Kinks,
Groovy Waters,
Anakelly,
Brass Construction,
Bauhaus,
Audionom,
MC5,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Toni Rubio,
Judy Mowatt,
New Age Steppers,
The Slits,
Monolake,
Erykah Badu,
Idris Muhammad,
Rod Modell,
EPMD,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Slave,
Pulsallama,
8 Eyed Spy,
Guru Guru,
Dave Gahan,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Lyres,
Derrick May,
David Axelrod,
Lindisfarne,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Techniques,
Faraquet,
Sound Behaviour,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Mary Jane Girls,
Surgeon,
Make Up,
The Fall,
Max Romeo,
X-102,
Lebanon Hanover,
Vladislav Delay,
The Monks,
K-Klass,
The Gories,
The Sonics,
The New Christs,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Index,
Quantec, Quantec, Quantec, Quantec.
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.