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 Indonesia and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 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 Pierre Henry to the dance 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 Aaron Thompson. All the underground hits.
All Arcadia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Count Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Order,
Gang Green,
Idris Muhammad,
Quando Quango,
Basic Channel,
K-Klass,
The Victims,
Stiv Bators,
Hasil Adkins,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Lou Christie,
Colin Newman,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Massinfluence,
Deadbeat,
Das Ding,
The Happenings,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Young Marble Giants,
Circle Jerks,
Smog,
Underground Resistance,
Mad Mike,
Ludus,
Oblivians,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Gastr Del Sol,
Eric Copeland,
Sonic Youth,
The Move,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Erasure,
Au Pairs,
Susan Cadogan,
Animal Collective,
Stetsasonic,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
June of 44,
Dave Gahan,
Motorama,
Delon & Dalcan,
Andrew Hill,
Kayak,
F. McDonald,
Icehouse,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
John Cale,
Country Teasers,
Siglo XX,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Byron Stingily,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Niagra,
Whodini,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
La Düsseldorf,
Barry Ungar,
Hardrive,
Sixth Finger,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.