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 Marshall Islands and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Sun Ra Arkestra to the disco 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 Interpol. All the underground hits.
All The J.B.'s tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ash Ra Tempel 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Judy Mowatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Be Bop Deluxe,
Eve St. Jones,
EPMD,
Lee Hazlewood,
Rekid,
DJ Style,
Cecil Taylor,
Unwound,
Fad Gadget,
Pharoah Sanders,
Make Up,
Alphaville,
The Doors,
The Misunderstood,
Simply Red,
Das Ding,
The Smoke,
Jimmy McGriff,
Marvin Gaye,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Surgeon,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Electric Prunes,
Roy Ayers,
The J.B.'s,
The Gap Band,
The Tremeloes,
Slick Rick,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
X-Ray Spex,
Oblivians,
Smog,
Joey Negro,
Juan Atkins,
OOIOO,
Sarah Menescal,
Quadrant,
Can,
Animal Collective,
Index,
David Bowie,
Aaron Thompson,
Barrington Levy,
Eurythmics,
Joensuu 1685,
Barclay James Harvest,
Harmonia,
Urselle,
Monolake,
Arcadia,
Nick Fraelich,
DNA,
Sound Behaviour,
Bobby Byrd,
LL Cool J,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
T.S.O.L.,
Thompson Twins,
Gang Starr,
R.M.O.,
Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D.
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.