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 Canada and from Paris.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 rhodes 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 Gastr Del Sol to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Television. All the underground hits.
All Pantytec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Easy Going record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythm & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABBA,
The Wake,
Leonard Cohen,
Royal Trux,
The Residents,
Animal Collective,
Spandau Ballet,
Suicide,
The Skatalites,
Carl Craig,
The Real Kids,
Sound Behaviour,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Moebius,
Roxy Music,
Skriet,
Camberwell Now,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Con Funk Shun,
Man Parrish,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Todd Rundgren,
Gang of Four,
Rhythm & Sound,
Danielle Patucci,
Flash Fearless,
New Order,
Gil Scott Heron,
Letta Mbulu,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bronski Beat,
Derrick Morgan,
Rekid,
Patti Smith,
Gang Gang Dance,
Cameo,
The Dirtbombs,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Gladiators,
Grandmaster Flash,
R.M.O.,
La Düsseldorf,
Los Fastidios,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
U.S. Maple,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Harpers Bizarre,
Derrick May,
10cc,
Delta 5,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Cramps,
Adolescents,
Q65,
Cheater Slicks,
Newcleus,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Bang On A Can, Bang On A Can, Bang On A Can, Bang On A Can.
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.