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 Lebanon and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Joensuu 1685 to the rock 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 Swell Maps. All the underground hits.
All Youth Brigade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heaven 17 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Royal Trux,
Delta 5,
The Pop Group,
Godley & Creme,
Mantronix,
Desert Stars,
Little Man,
Y Pants,
Rites of Spring,
Jeff Mills,
Adolescents,
Pulsallama,
Eddi Front,
Wally Richardson,
Fela Kuti,
Whodini,
John Cale,
Johnny Osbourne,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
June of 44,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Suicide,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Guru Guru,
Negative Approach,
Tim Buckley,
Thee Headcoats,
Can,
Glambeats Corp.,
Masters at Work,
MDC,
Byron Stingily,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Gang Starr,
Lebanon Hanover,
Goldenarms,
Sugar Minott,
The Last Poets,
Roxette,
New Age Steppers,
Prince Buster,
X-101,
Duran Duran,
Sarah Menescal,
Hot Snakes,
The Five Americans,
AZ,
Idris Muhammad,
Echospace,
Freddie Wadling,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Seeds,
Terry Callier,
Q and Not U,
Pagans,
The Cowsills,
The American Breed,
The Happenings,
June Days,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu.
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.