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 Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Holger Czukay 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the punk 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 Aural Exciters. All the underground hits.
All The Seeds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every London Community Gospel Choir record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum 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?
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Red Krayola,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Spandau Ballet,
Darondo,
Ornette Coleman,
EPMD,
Scan 7,
F. McDonald,
Ice-T,
Subhumans,
The United States of America,
Graham Central Station,
the Slits,
Skarface,
The Standells,
Derrick May,
Sound Behaviour,
Icehouse,
Derrick Morgan,
The Stooges,
Shuggie Otis,
Public Enemy,
Oblivians,
K-Klass,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Kerrie Biddell,
Rekid,
Oneida,
Brass Construction,
Bob Dylan,
A Certain Ratio,
Ponytail,
H. Thieme,
The Zeros,
Country Joe & The Fish,
10cc,
Todd Rundgren,
Albert Ayler,
Ten City,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Chris & Cosey,
Clear Light,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Janne Schatter,
The Mummies,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Eddi Front,
Joy Division,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Howard Jones,
Crime,
LL Cool J,
Outsiders,
Marshall Jefferson,
Minnie Riperton,
Depeche Mode,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground.
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.