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 Malta and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Houston.
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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Bauhaus to the rock 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 Steve Hackett. All the underground hits.
All MC5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cameo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amazonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Technova,
Agitation Free,
Slave,
Urselle,
Au Pairs,
Symarip,
The Zeros,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bad Manners,
The Moleskins,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Reuben Wilson,
Freddie Wadling,
The Doors,
Sun Ra,
Masters at Work,
Drive Like Jehu,
Half Japanese,
Supertramp,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Hashim,
Bluetip,
Albert Ayler,
Y Pants,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Swell Maps,
The Wake,
Model 500,
Yusef Lateef,
DJ Sneak,
Idris Muhammad,
Fugazi,
Judy Mowatt,
The Index,
Bobby Womack,
Joey Negro,
The Selecter,
Cameo,
Massinfluence,
Television Personalities,
The Remains,
David Axelrod,
Index,
The Gap Band,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
June of 44,
Isaac Hayes,
Moss Icon,
Simply Red,
Lakeside,
Essential Logic,
Max Romeo,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Skaos,
Curtis Mayfield,
Moby Grape,
Tomorrow,
Minutemen,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Mr. Review, Mr. Review, Mr. Review, Mr. Review.
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.