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 Georgia and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 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 Simply Red to the dance 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 Aaron Thompson. All the underground hits.
All Marine Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Terry 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 '60s 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 Rhythim Is Rhythim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Suicide,
The Associates,
Adolescents,
Ponytail,
The Leaves,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Stiv Bators,
John Lydon,
Marine Girls,
Youth Brigade,
The Wake,
Crash Course in Science,
Dorothy Ashby,
Organ,
Tom Boy,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
New York Dolls,
A Certain Ratio,
The Martian,
R.M.O.,
Minutemen,
Lucky Dragons,
K-Klass,
Eric Copeland,
Crooked Eye,
H. Thieme,
Peter & Gordon,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Cybotron,
Dave Gahan,
Echospace,
Gerry Rafferty,
Intrusion,
The Mojo Men,
The Neon Judgement,
Soulsonic Force,
The Star Department,
Vainqueur,
Bad Manners,
Absolute Body Control,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
James White and The Blacks,
Eurythmics,
Model 500,
Flamin' Groovies,
B.T. Express,
the Swans,
Piero Umiliani,
The Count Five,
Section 25,
Blake Baxter,
the Slits,
Con Funk Shun,
Clear Light,
Thompson Twins,
EPMD,
Cal Tjader,
Juan Atkins,
Lou Reed,
Black Sheep,
Basic Channel,
T.S.O.L.,
Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel.
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.