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 Uruguay and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 theremin 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 Mary Jane Girls to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Gories. All the underground hits.
All Brass Construction tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marine Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Althea and Donna record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Das Ding,
Vladislav Delay,
Patti Smith,
Flash Fearless,
Jandek,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Public Image Ltd.,
Pole,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
FM Einheit,
Adolescents,
The Velvet Underground,
Stetsasonic,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Glenn Branca,
Pharoah Sanders,
Angry Samoans,
the Human League,
The Pretty Things,
Rod Modell,
Dawn Penn,
Echospace,
Unrelated Segments,
Reagan Youth,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ultra Naté,
Kenny Larkin,
The Sisters of Mercy,
OOIOO,
Sun Ra,
PIL,
H. Thieme,
Warren Ellis,
Clear Light,
Wings,
Sound Behaviour,
Simply Red,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bronski Beat,
Terrestrial Tones,
Franke,
Yellowson,
ABC,
Supertramp,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Thompson Twins,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Grandmaster Flash,
Harpers Bizarre,
X-101,
Leonard Cohen,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Zeros,
kango's stein massive,
Graham Central Station,
The Dirtbombs,
X-102,
Archie Shepp,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Roxette,
Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker.
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.