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 Philippines and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the guitar 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 A Flock of Seagulls to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Roxy Music. All the underground hits.
All Arab on Radar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Iggy Pop record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eden Ahbez record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
Blancmange,
MC5,
Amon Düül II,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
One Last Wish,
Guru Guru,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Fluxion,
Thompson Twins,
Vainqueur,
The Skatalites,
Talk Talk,
Amazonics,
Easy Going,
Girls At Our Best!,
Nirvana,
Lindisfarne,
Blossom Toes,
Max Romeo,
Los Fastidios,
The New Christs,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lou Reed,
Suicide,
Khruangbin,
Half Japanese,
Severed Heads,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Fuzztones,
Minor Threat,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Absolute Body Control,
Andrew Hill,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Ohio Players,
The American Breed,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Chris Corsano,
Althea and Donna,
Kurtis Blow,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ronnie Foster,
Au Pairs,
Bobbi Humphrey,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Toni Rubio,
Eden Ahbez,
Groovy Waters,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Cal Tjader,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Q65,
EPMD,
Black Flag,
Silicon Teens,
Reuben Wilson,
Archie Shepp,
Neu!,
Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army.
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.