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 Nauru and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Tubeway Army to the crunk 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 Rekid. All the underground hits.
All Aural Exciters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Order 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 chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tres Demented,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Don Cherry,
The Moody Blues,
T. Rex,
E-Dancer,
Severed Heads,
Alphaville,
Gregory Isaacs,
Bronski Beat,
Young Marble Giants,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Star Department,
Deakin,
UT,
Isaac Hayes,
Flash Fearless,
Bill Near,
Half Japanese,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Warren Ellis,
Bush Tetras,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Janne Schatter,
Lou Reed,
Q and Not U,
Urselle,
Das Ding,
Pylon,
the Bar-Kays,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Barrington Levy,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Echospace,
Deadbeat,
The Tremeloes,
Laurel Aitken,
Popol Vuh,
Von Mondo,
Fela Kuti,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Roxy Music,
Graham Central Station,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kerri Chandler,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
DNA,
Jandek,
Mars,
Andrew Hill,
Banda Bassotti,
Zero Boys,
Deepchord,
Black Flag,
Sarah Menescal,
David McCallum,
Hot Snakes,
DJ Sneak,
the Fania All-Stars,
Agent Orange,
The Slits,
John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane.
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.