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 Slovenia and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Stooges to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Nik Kershaw. All the underground hits.
All Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skriet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Easy Going record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bill Near,
Zero Boys,
Hashim,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Basic Channel,
Gong,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Outsiders,
Derrick May,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Martian,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Dead Boys,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Monks,
The Standells,
the Normal,
Lyres,
Camouflage,
Tommy Roe,
Ultra Naté,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Alice Coltrane,
Mantronix,
cv313,
Sarah Menescal,
Hasil Adkins,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Y Pants,
Slick Rick,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Gang of Four,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Fela Kuti,
R.M.O.,
The Offenders,
E-Dancer,
Sound Behaviour,
Blancmange,
Mars,
Susan Cadogan,
John Cale,
Sex Pistols,
Colin Newman,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
La Düsseldorf,
Dennis Brown,
Eric Dolphy,
Franke,
Surgeon,
Cluster,
World's Most,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Human League,
Avey Tare,
Arthur Verocai,
Scientists,
Bootsy Collins,
Gang Green,
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear.
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.