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 Libya and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 LL Cool J to the funk 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 Barrington Levy. All the underground hits.
All Bizarre Inc. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Colin Newman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quantec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott Heron,
The Electric Prunes,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
CMW,
Deakin,
Harmonia,
Scott Walker,
Lou Reed,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Delon & Dalcan,
Tommy Roe,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Aloha Tigers,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Heaven 17,
Steve Hackett,
Jacob Miller,
Theoretical Girls,
The Misunderstood,
The Cure,
FM Einheit,
Nils Olav,
LL Cool J,
JFA,
Kaleidoscope,
Excepter,
Sparks,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Black Bananas,
Duran Duran,
The Red Krayola,
Bootsy Collins,
Ludus,
Pole,
Don Cherry,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Pretty Things,
Inner City,
The Young Rascals,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Surgeon,
Jeru the Damaja,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Radiohead,
Eric Dolphy,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Scion,
Scan 7,
The Count Five,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Soulsonic Force,
Vladislav Delay,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Blues Magoos,
Marine Girls,
Terry Callier,
Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes.
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.