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 Portugal and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 synthesizer 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 John Cale to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Crime. All the underground hits.
All Sonic Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Light Orchestra 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Order record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marshall Jefferson,
James White and The Blacks,
Anakelly,
Howard Jones,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ralphi Rosario,
Colin Newman,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Dawn Penn,
Kerri Chandler,
The Music Machine,
Kayak,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Saints,
MDC,
The Fire Engines,
Joe Smooth,
Dual Sessions,
Buzzcocks,
AZ,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
John Holt,
Stereo Dub,
Public Enemy,
Joyce Sims,
These Immortal Souls,
Trumans Water,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Kas Product,
Rhythm & Sound,
Camberwell Now,
MC5,
Theoretical Girls,
Lakeside,
Cymande,
Duran Duran,
R.M.O.,
Jacob Miller,
Ossler,
The Blackbyrds,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Average White Band,
Excepter,
The Alarm Clocks,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Hot Snakes,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Aswad,
Robert Görl,
Cybotron,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Goldenarms,
Wasted Youth,
Q65,
Malaria!,
Albert Ayler,
Mars,
The Grass Roots,
Blancmange,
Faraquet,
Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons.
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.