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 Albania and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Birthday Party to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Ponytail. All the underground hits.
All The Evens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gabor Szabo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MC5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Mission of Burma,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Move,
U.S. Maple,
Camouflage,
Surgeon,
Juan Atkins,
Theoretical Girls,
Bang On A Can,
Khruangbin,
Suburban Knight,
Barbara Tucker,
Unrelated Segments,
Accadde A,
Bootsy Collins,
Grey Daturas,
Panda Bear,
Desert Stars,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Frankie Knuckles,
Qualms,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Television,
Jesper Dahlback,
Eden Ahbez,
Crispian St. Peters,
Nation of Ulysses,
Bill Near,
MC5,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Swell Maps,
The Alarm Clocks,
Pharoah Sanders,
In Retrospect,
Derrick May,
The Modern Lovers,
The Dave Clark Five,
Television Personalities,
The Seeds,
Fat Boys,
The Misunderstood,
Kerri Chandler,
Skriet,
The Associates,
DNA,
Sonny Sharrock,
Intrusion,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Alton Ellis,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Parry Music,
Marshall Jefferson,
Chris & Cosey,
Harry Pussy,
Marmalade,
Soulsonic Force,
T. Rex,
The Fall,
Little Man,
Rekid,
Suicide, Suicide, Suicide, Suicide.
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.