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 the UAE and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Columbus.
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 guitar 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 Sparks to the rap 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 Nirvana. All the underground hits.
All David McCallum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Althea and Donna 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yellowson,
Ultimate Spinach,
Joe Smooth,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Fela Kuti,
Iggy Pop,
Rufus Thomas,
Gichy Dan,
Gong,
Tears for Fears,
Depeche Mode,
Animal Collective,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Godley & Creme,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Alice Coltrane,
EPMD,
Moebius,
The Doors,
Danielle Patucci,
DJ Style,
Stereo Dub,
Royal Trux,
Todd Rundgren,
Traffic Nightmare,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Wings,
The Residents,
The Kinks,
Rapeman,
Heaven 17,
Crime,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Roxette,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Deepchord,
cv313,
Soulsonic Force,
the Bar-Kays,
Bootsy Collins,
Camouflage,
Wire,
Hardrive,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Brand Nubian,
John Foxx,
Big Daddy Kane,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Electric Prunes,
Black Flag,
The Remains,
Arcadia,
Joyce Sims,
Popol Vuh,
Radiohead,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Nik Kershaw,
Junior Murvin,
The Misunderstood,
Absolute Body Control,
Aswad, Aswad, Aswad, Aswad.
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.