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 Bahrain and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 Donald Fagen 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 Yellowson to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Sparks. All the underground hits.
All Cybotron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Knickerbockers 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barbara Tucker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Smooth,
Isaac Hayes,
Albert Ayler,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Vladislav Delay,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Joyce Sims,
Spoonie Gee,
LL Cool J,
Terrestrial Tones,
Rotary Connection,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sällskapet,
The Red Krayola,
The Victims,
DJ Style,
Nils Olav,
Banda Bassotti,
Television,
Grey Daturas,
Peter & Gordon,
Sonic Youth,
Negative Approach,
Parry Music,
The Moleskins,
Gichy Dan,
Hashim,
Camouflage,
Barclay James Harvest,
Infiniti,
The Sound,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Evens,
The Busters,
Cecil Taylor,
The Skatalites,
Dennis Brown,
Amazonics,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Charles Mingus,
Johnny Clarke,
Soul II Soul,
U.S. Maple,
Moby Grape,
Marc Almond,
Marvin Gaye,
Cymande,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Stiv Bators,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Lou Reed,
Morten Harket,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Moss Icon,
La Düsseldorf,
Marshall Jefferson,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Bill Near,
Dawn Penn,
Boredoms, Boredoms, Boredoms, Boredoms.
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.