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 Taiwan and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro 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 Cluster to the disco 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 Technova. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Panda Bear,
Jerry's Kids,
Danielle Patucci,
Eddi Front,
Average White Band,
The Blackbyrds,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Fortunes,
Talk Talk,
Godley & Creme,
Colin Newman,
Boredoms,
Todd Rundgren,
Iggy Pop,
X-101,
Stereo Dub,
Index,
The Cure,
Eric Copeland,
Parry Music,
Arcadia,
The Misunderstood,
Eric Dolphy,
8 Eyed Spy,
Crispy Ambulance,
Leonard Cohen,
Pantytec,
Derrick May,
Essential Logic,
JFA,
Gregory Isaacs,
Black Bananas,
Gong,
Neil Young,
Rod Modell,
Rites of Spring,
The Alarm Clocks,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Standells,
Shoche,
Moebius,
The Buckinghams,
L. Decosne,
Rosa Yemen,
The Count Five,
The Birthday Party,
John Coltrane,
the Germs,
Henry Cow,
Tomorrow,
Ultimate Spinach,
48th St. Collective,
KRS-One,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Electric Prunes,
kango's stein massive,
Sarah Menescal,
UT,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Quantec,
Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith.
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.