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 Turkmenistan and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the marimba 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 K-Klass to the techno 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 Toni Rubio. All the underground hits.
All Gerry Rafferty tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lower 48 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin 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 guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sparks,
The Searchers,
Radiopuhelimet,
Amon Düül,
Al Stewart,
Oneida,
Joe Smooth,
Dead Boys,
The Raincoats,
Lou Christie,
Depeche Mode,
The J.B.'s,
The Cramps,
The Zeros,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Real Kids,
the Normal,
ABBA,
Alphaville,
The Index,
World's Most,
Japan,
Mad Mike,
Glambeats Corp.,
Lower 48,
Patti Smith,
Albert Ayler,
Iggy Pop,
Soft Cell,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
In Retrospect,
Sister Nancy,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Franke,
Harmonia,
The Martian,
Sällskapet,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Echospace,
The Smiths,
Lyres,
Talk Talk,
Toni Rubio,
Black Pus,
The Leaves,
Erykah Badu,
UT,
Faraquet,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Modern Lovers,
Moss Icon,
Brothers Johnson,
Soul II Soul,
Darondo,
The Gories,
Roxy Music,
K-Klass,
The Busters,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
John Holt,
Warren Ellis,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.