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 Nigeria and from Spokane.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Michael McDonald 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 Iggy Pop to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All Magazine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stiv Bators 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 spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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 Gories,
L. Decosne,
The Saints,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Nils Olav,
Magma,
Cameo,
Camouflage,
Brick,
Porter Ricks,
cv313,
La Düsseldorf,
Moss Icon,
Chris Corsano,
Jimmy McGriff,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Fuzztones,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Roxette,
Talk Talk,
Banda Bassotti,
Erykah Badu,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Swans,
Cybotron,
Grandmaster Flash,
the Human League,
The Move,
The Names,
Spandau Ballet,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Toasters,
Public Image Ltd.,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
the Bar-Kays,
the Normal,
The Smiths,
Lungfish,
Crash Course in Science,
Kas Product,
Bob Dylan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Kinks,
Faust,
Fear,
Funkadelic,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Youth Brigade,
Liliput,
Anthony Braxton,
Man Eating Sloth,
10cc,
Bill Wells,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Remains,
In Retrospect,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
John Holt, John Holt, John Holt, John Holt.
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.