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 Namibia and from Edmonton.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Fad Gadget to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Warsaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thompson Twins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Prince Buster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Womack,
Massinfluence,
Swell Maps,
Little Man,
Jandek,
Warsaw,
CMW,
The Young Rascals,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Mission of Burma,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Modern Lovers,
Brand Nubian,
Don Cherry,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Inner City,
Icehouse,
Wolf Eyes,
Charles Mingus,
UT,
One Last Wish,
Joey Negro,
ABC,
Ronan,
David Bowie,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
KRS-One,
Black Bananas,
Black Pus,
H. Thieme,
Stereo Dub,
The Barracudas,
Grandmaster Flash,
Robert Wyatt,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Crispian St. Peters,
Flamin' Groovies,
Monks,
Peter and Kerry,
Henry Cow,
The Sonics,
the Association,
Young Marble Giants,
Kas Product,
John Foxx,
Ken Boothe,
Flipper,
Urselle,
Minnie Riperton,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Trojans,
Lightning Bolt,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Reuben Wilson,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Model 500,
Ronnie Foster,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Martian,
The Move,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Rufus Thomas,
The Mojo Men,
Shoche, Shoche, Shoche, Shoche.
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.