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 the UAE and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 Holger Czukay 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 Oblivians to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Magma. All the underground hits.
All Prince Buster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Liaisons Dangereuses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
Barbara Tucker,
Arthur Verocai,
The Doors,
Tommy Roe,
Pantytec,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Derrick Morgan,
Essential Logic,
Bill Wells,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Toni Rubio,
The Move,
PIL,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Hasil Adkins,
Roger Hodgson,
Blake Baxter,
Minnie Riperton,
Rhythm & Sound,
New Age Steppers,
Babytalk,
Kerri Chandler,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Associates,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Camouflage,
Charles Mingus,
Gastr Del Sol,
David Axelrod,
Peter & Gordon,
The Remains,
Deadbeat,
Lindisfarne,
Black Sheep,
Zero Boys,
Mark Hollis,
Gerry Rafferty,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Slick Rick,
New York Dolls,
Sixth Finger,
the Human League,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Q65,
Altered Images,
Jawbox,
Cybotron,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Warren Ellis,
Dead Boys,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Clear Light,
Drive Like Jehu,
Bill Near,
Rod Modell,
Traffic Nightmare,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Prince Buster,
Blancmange,
The Happenings,
Outsiders,
China Crisis,
Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow.
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.