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 Australia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Tokyo.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Gichy Dan 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 Lebanon Hanover. All the underground hits.
All John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visage 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantytec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Hashim,
Derrick Morgan,
Drexciya,
Jawbox,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Section 25,
The Skatalites,
Ultravox,
Arab on Radar,
Radiohead,
Isaac Hayes,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Barracudas,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Ten City,
Barry Ungar,
Dawn Penn,
The Monochrome Set,
Danielle Patucci,
Marshall Jefferson,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Funky Four + One,
Archie Shepp,
The Modern Lovers,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
John Cale,
Cheater Slicks,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Japan,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
JFA,
Byron Stingily,
Blake Baxter,
Judy Mowatt,
The Mummies,
Das Ding,
Malaria!,
Letta Mbulu,
Niagra,
Yaz,
The United States of America,
The Golliwogs,
Ornette Coleman,
The Angels of Light,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Cybotron,
Max Romeo,
Eden Ahbez,
Roxette,
Joyce Sims,
Clear Light,
Prince Buster,
Mad Mike,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Audionom,
June of 44,
Soul II Soul,
Alison Limerick,
David Bowie,
Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett.
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.