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 Qatar and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Radiohead to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 MDC. All the underground hits.
All The Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boredoms 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wally Richardson,
Crooked Eye,
Interpol,
Monolake,
Throbbing Gristle,
Duran Duran,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Red Krayola,
Ohio Players,
The Black Dice,
Khruangbin,
Rod Modell,
The Selecter,
Von Mondo,
Vainqueur,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Arab on Radar,
The Moleskins,
Rekid,
The Invisible,
Gang Green,
Scratch Acid,
Echospace,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Victims,
ABBA,
CMW,
Audionom,
kango's stein massive,
Sister Nancy,
Motorama,
Todd Rundgren,
Eli Mardock,
Nico,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Joy Division,
Blossom Toes,
Grauzone,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Trojans,
Vladislav Delay,
Arcadia,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Shuggie Otis,
Rotary Connection,
Babytalk,
Amazonics,
Rites of Spring,
Zapp,
The Offenders,
Stetsasonic,
David Bowie,
Alison Limerick,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Gladiators,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Slackers,
Altered Images,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry.
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.