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 Eritrea and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Quadrant to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Gories. All the underground hits.
All Adolescents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wasted Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scan 7,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Organ,
Sparks,
Young Marble Giants,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Easy Going,
Spandau Ballet,
Janne Schatter,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Flesh Eaters,
Isaac Hayes,
Mandrill,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lightning Bolt,
Thee Headcoats,
Drive Like Jehu,
Gang Gang Dance,
John Foxx,
Sällskapet,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Subhumans,
Fat Boys,
Kevin Saunderson,
Neu!,
The Birthday Party,
X-Ray Spex,
The Techniques,
Leonard Cohen,
Radiohead,
Q and Not U,
The Durutti Column,
Scrapy,
The Selecter,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Procol Harum,
Ultravox,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Gregory Isaacs,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
H. Thieme,
The Names,
Siglo XX,
Negative Approach,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Seeds,
X-101,
Surgeon,
The Fortunes,
Altered Images,
Delon & Dalcan,
Half Japanese,
the Germs,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Cramps,
Bobby Byrd,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lakeside,
The Gun Club, The Gun Club, The Gun Club, The Gun Club.
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.