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 Sri Lanka and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 spring reverb 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 Bobbi Humphrey to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Essential Logic. All the underground hits.
All Ronan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every In Retrospect 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Talk Talk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Erasure,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Marc Almond,
Sonic Youth,
Erykah Badu,
The Cowsills,
The Beau Brummels,
Country Teasers,
Intrusion,
The Electric Prunes,
Althea and Donna,
Yaz,
The Music Machine,
Amon Düül II,
Tears for Fears,
Fela Kuti,
La Düsseldorf,
The Names,
Shoche,
Marvin Gaye,
Letta Mbulu,
Donny Hathaway,
The Martian,
Popol Vuh,
T. Rex,
Severed Heads,
Negative Approach,
Glambeats Corp.,
Quantec,
Kerri Chandler,
Saccharine Trust,
Loose Ends,
Bootsy Collins,
Subhumans,
Aloha Tigers,
Hasil Adkins,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Jerry's Kids,
Alphaville,
Theoretical Girls,
The Doobie Brothers,
Dead Boys,
China Crisis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pierre Henry,
Liliput,
Tim Buckley,
MC5,
Wire,
James White and The Blacks,
Man Parrish,
Sex Pistols,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Radiopuhelimet,
Minutemen,
Crime,
A Certain Ratio,
Second Layer,
The Alarm Clocks,
Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia.
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.