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 Uganda and from Seoul.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Lyon.
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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Bluetip to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 UT. All the underground hits.
All Cameo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pet Shop Boys 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rosa Yemen,
Clear Light,
Trumans Water,
L. Decosne,
Amon Düül,
Buzzcocks,
Television Personalities,
Ronan,
Scott Walker,
The Fugs,
Brass Construction,
MC5,
Roxy Music,
Bobby Sherman,
Infiniti,
Average White Band,
Grey Daturas,
Stereo Dub,
Ten City,
Gabor Szabo,
Marcia Griffiths,
Altered Images,
Camouflage,
Eve St. Jones,
Bauhaus,
The Cowsills,
Lightning Bolt,
Royal Trux,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Martian,
the Association,
E-Dancer,
The Golliwogs,
Public Enemy,
Oneida,
Barbara Tucker,
Quadrant,
Lou Christie,
Half Japanese,
Crooked Eye,
Severed Heads,
Sandy B,
Vladislav Delay,
Lebanon Hanover,
Anthony Braxton,
The Dead C,
Minutemen,
Liliput,
The Blues Magoos,
Audionom,
Brothers Johnson,
Matthew Halsall,
Throbbing Gristle,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Loose Ends,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Tears for Fears,
Depeche Mode,
Juan Atkins,
Susan Cadogan,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.