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 Russia and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 linndrum 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 Mad Mike to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Blake Baxter. All the underground hits.
All Von Mondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alton Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New York Dolls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
Leonard Cohen,
the Bar-Kays,
Angry Samoans,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Big Daddy Kane,
World's Most,
Archie Shepp,
X-101,
Tears for Fears,
Lalann,
Y Pants,
The Birthday Party,
The Doobie Brothers,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Jerry's Kids,
Tres Demented,
David McCallum,
Jeff Lynne,
Parry Music,
Scrapy,
The Stooges,
Gil Scott Heron,
Hasil Adkins,
These Immortal Souls,
Cluster,
Barbara Tucker,
Eric Copeland,
Altered Images,
Shuggie Otis,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Judy Mowatt,
ABC,
Can,
Grauzone,
Lakeside,
The Wake,
A Certain Ratio,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Danielle Patucci,
the Swans,
Sonny Sharrock,
Agitation Free,
The Gories,
Bang On A Can,
June Days,
Eli Mardock,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Max Romeo,
Ultravox,
Erykah Badu,
Slave,
Procol Harum,
OOIOO,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Urselle,
The Cure,
kango's stein massive,
John Holt,
Nik Kershaw,
The Walker Brothers,
Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry.
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.