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 Mexico and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Sao Paulo.
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 808 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 Delon & Dalcan to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Maurizio. All the underground hits.
All Brick 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 techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 8 Eyed Spy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Talk Talk,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Scion,
The Toasters,
Public Enemy,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
These Immortal Souls,
Alton Ellis,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Pantaleimon,
Erykah Badu,
Mad Mike,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Evens,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Eve St. Jones,
The Electric Prunes,
a-ha,
The Fugs,
DJ Style,
Index,
PIL,
Saccharine Trust,
The Golliwogs,
Soul Sonic Force,
Newcleus,
The Five Americans,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
the Slits,
Derrick May,
Lalo Schifrin,
Oblivians,
Camouflage,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Eric B and Rakim,
Tom Boy,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Flipper,
Qualms,
Ultimate Spinach,
Pharoah Sanders,
Hot Snakes,
The Fortunes,
Kool Moe Dee,
Magazine,
kango's stein massive,
The Shadows of Knight,
Wings,
Zero Boys,
Marcia Griffiths,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
FM Einheit,
Sällskapet,
Monks,
Sixth Finger,
The Real Kids,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Lou Christie,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal.
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.