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 Colombia and from Manchester.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 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 Vladislav Delay to the punk 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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux. All the underground hits.
All The Names tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marine Girls,
The Knickerbockers,
Little Man,
The Star Department,
Soft Cell,
Ludus,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Subhumans,
Jacques Brel,
FM Einheit,
Guru Guru,
Scientists,
The Techniques,
Dual Sessions,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Fifty Foot Hose,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lucky Dragons,
Audionom,
Schoolly D,
The Trojans,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Alton Ellis,
Oblivians,
The Angels of Light,
Underground Resistance,
Tres Demented,
The Count Five,
Japan,
Avey Tare,
Rufus Thomas,
Fear,
Metal Thangz,
Au Pairs,
Tim Buckley,
John Lydon,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Qualms,
Hashim,
Terrestrial Tones,
Gang Starr,
Idris Muhammad,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
June of 44,
The Cowsills,
Ultra Naté,
Robert Wyatt,
Duran Duran,
The Dirtbombs,
New Age Steppers,
X-Ray Spex,
Hardrive,
Kevin Saunderson,
Boredoms,
Bang On A Can,
Slave,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.