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 Antigua and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Los Fastidios to the rock 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 Lebanon Hanover. All the underground hits.
All The Standells tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scientists record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova 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?
Man Parrish,
Cal Tjader,
Todd Rundgren,
Maleditus Sound,
Subhumans,
Moebius,
Henry Cow,
Slave,
Bobby Byrd,
Youth Brigade,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Walker Brothers,
E-Dancer,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rhythm & Sound,
Oblivians,
Delon & Dalcan,
Make Up,
Cybotron,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Johnny Clarke,
Blossom Toes,
Quando Quango,
Matthew Halsall,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gregory Isaacs,
Pharoah Sanders,
Warsaw,
Alison Limerick,
Grey Daturas,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Japan,
Idris Muhammad,
Alphaville,
The Count Five,
Donny Hathaway,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Trojans,
Guru Guru,
Loose Ends,
Nation of Ulysses,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Neon Judgement,
FM Einheit,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Fluxion,
Neu!,
Kaleidoscope,
The United States of America,
Michelle Simonal,
Marc Almond,
Easy Going,
Bill Wells,
Sexual Harrassment,
China Crisis,
Danielle Patucci,
Agitation Free,
Scan 7,
La Düsseldorf,
Hot Snakes,
Whodini,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.