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 China and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Rapeman to the crunk 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 Todd Rundgren. All the underground hits.
All U.S. Maple 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 jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Surgeon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Smog,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Reagan Youth,
Patti Smith,
Can,
Tom Boy,
Derrick May,
Erasure,
Radio Birdman,
The American Breed,
OOIOO,
Dual Sessions,
World's Most,
Gang Starr,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Spandau Ballet,
Banda Bassotti,
Cymande,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
10cc,
Lower 48,
Joyce Sims,
The Flesh Eaters,
U.S. Maple,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Unwound,
The Litter,
Essential Logic,
Depeche Mode,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
PIL,
Shoche,
A Certain Ratio,
Unrelated Segments,
Pere Ubu,
the Sonics,
The Techniques,
The Last Poets,
Big Daddy Kane,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
UT,
Boz Scaggs,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Sight & Sound,
The Golliwogs,
Crash Course in Science,
Moss Icon,
The Remains,
Magazine,
Eric Dolphy,
Cheater Slicks,
The Associates,
Roxette,
Sonic Youth,
The Human League,
Suicide,
Charles Mingus,
Monks,
Dennis Brown,
the Human League,
Q and Not U,
Camberwell Now,
Jerry's Kids,
The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots.
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.