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 Bhutan and from Cairo.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Alphaville. All the underground hits.
All Scion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marmalade 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 snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Raincoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Monks,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Graham Central Station,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Music Machine,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Junior Murvin,
Smog,
the Fania All-Stars,
Fatback Band,
Morten Harket,
Alice Coltrane,
X-Ray Spex,
Bluetip,
Ultra Naté,
Donald Byrd,
Heaven 17,
Rakim,
Echospace,
Gang Green,
Chris Corsano,
Colin Newman,
the Soft Cell,
Lou Christie,
Scrapy,
Dawn Penn,
Henry Cow,
Nick Fraelich,
the Slits,
Saccharine Trust,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Electric Prunes,
Gong,
Nirvana,
Freddie Wadling,
Brick,
Joensuu 1685,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Schoolly D,
Connie Case,
Angry Samoans,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Remains,
Pole,
Roxy Music,
The J.B.'s,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Scion,
Delta 5,
Deakin,
Cybotron,
Man Parrish,
The Toasters,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bauhaus,
Icehouse,
Maleditus Sound,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.