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 Costa Rica and from New York.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Zapp to the rock 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 Liliput. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aloha Tigers 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 '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 Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aswad,
Alphaville,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Blackbyrds,
Ralphi Rosario,
Gang Gang Dance,
Lebanon Hanover,
Glambeats Corp.,
Stockholm Monsters,
June Days,
Idris Muhammad,
kango's stein massive,
Black Moon,
Stiv Bators,
Bauhaus,
Aloha Tigers,
Pussy Galore,
Hashim,
The Litter,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sarah Menescal,
UT,
Vladislav Delay,
Sister Nancy,
Warsaw,
Smog,
Derrick Morgan,
Josef K,
Pylon,
Mr. Review,
Skaos,
Suicide,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Knickerbockers,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Human League,
Monks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eden Ahbez,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Zeros,
Moss Icon,
Depeche Mode,
Masters at Work,
T. Rex,
The Last Poets,
Absolute Body Control,
Q and Not U,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
the Sonics,
the Fania All-Stars,
Brand Nubian,
Gang Green,
Faust,
Newcleus,
Second Layer,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Mission of Burma,
Amazonics,
Hoover,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.
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.