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 Malaysia 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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 arpeggiator 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 The Royal Family And The Poor to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Magazine. All the underground hits.
All The Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Girls At Our Best! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Newcleus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Copeland,
Swell Maps,
David Axelrod,
Jacques Brel,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Associates,
Drive Like Jehu,
Funkadelic,
Nirvana,
X-101,
Soul II Soul,
Nas,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Au Pairs,
Cecil Taylor,
David McCallum,
Fluxion,
Pantaleimon,
Robert Görl,
Black Pus,
Clear Light,
The Standells,
The Young Rascals,
Idris Muhammad,
Archie Shepp,
Amon Düül,
CMW,
The Victims,
Yaz,
Heaven 17,
The Beau Brummels,
EPMD,
China Crisis,
Sparks,
Amon Düül II,
Crispy Ambulance,
Ornette Coleman,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Happenings,
The Velvet Underground,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Star Department,
The Alarm Clocks,
Eric Dolphy,
Letta Mbulu,
Marvin Gaye,
Bill Wells,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Avey Tare,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Glenn Branca,
Mandrill,
OOIOO,
Pere Ubu,
Wally Richardson,
Second Layer,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Human League,
The Last Poets,
Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B.
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.