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 Bhutan and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Deakin to the funk 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 Roxette. All the underground hits.
All MC5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bob Dylan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Glenn Branca record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gabor Szabo,
The Searchers,
the Swans,
Michelle Simonal,
Monolake,
Ludus,
Beasts of Bourbon,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Roger Hodgson,
Soul II Soul,
Scott Walker,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Aaron Thompson,
Delta 5,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Stiv Bators,
Susan Cadogan,
Suburban Knight,
Flash Fearless,
Public Image Ltd.,
Tres Demented,
Letta Mbulu,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Monks,
Technova,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Alton Ellis,
New York Dolls,
Vainqueur,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Stereo Dub,
Television Personalities,
Lalo Schifrin,
Andrew Hill,
Wasted Youth,
Brick,
The Five Americans,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Walker Brothers,
The Modern Lovers,
ABC,
Black Pus,
Pere Ubu,
Terrestrial Tones,
Warren Ellis,
Kas Product,
Roy Ayers,
Joensuu 1685,
Slick Rick,
Liliput,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Index,
Quadrant,
Silicon Teens,
The Selecter,
Rites of Spring,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Erasure, Erasure, Erasure, Erasure.
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.