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 Israel and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Mexico City.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the organ 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 Eddi Front to the electroclash 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 One Last Wish. All the underground hits.
All The Names tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shoche record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Image Ltd.,
Kerrie Biddell,
Banda Bassotti,
Eden Ahbez,
Harmonia,
Mo-Dettes,
Roy Ayers,
Ultra Naté,
Scan 7,
John Foxx,
Gastr Del Sol,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Black Bananas,
Eric Copeland,
Clear Light,
The Misunderstood,
La Düsseldorf,
Connie Case,
Bob Dylan,
Swell Maps,
Index,
The Pop Group,
Pole,
MDC,
Smog,
Porter Ricks,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Dark Day,
Tubeway Army,
Big Daddy Kane,
Unwound,
Sun City Girls,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Crash Course in Science,
The Birthday Party,
Pylon,
Jimmy McGriff,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Fela Kuti,
kango's stein massive,
Flamin' Groovies,
ABC,
The Pretty Things,
Isaac Hayes,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Drexciya,
Second Layer,
The Velvet Underground,
The Beau Brummels,
The Gap Band,
Magma,
Dead Boys,
Andrew Hill,
DJ Sneak,
Stereo Dub,
Ituana,
Todd Terry,
Massinfluence,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Ornette Coleman,
Wally Richardson,
Brothers Johnson, Brothers Johnson, Brothers Johnson, Brothers Johnson.
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.