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 Cambodia and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Heavy D & The Boyz to the grunge 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron. All the underground hits.
All Michelle Simonal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare 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 synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Bourne,
The Saints,
Stetsasonic,
The Offenders,
Symarip,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Techniques,
Boz Scaggs,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Eric Copeland,
Kas Product,
Moebius,
Average White Band,
Chris & Cosey,
Television Personalities,
Swans,
Reagan Youth,
Prince Buster,
Franke,
Skarface,
Minutemen,
B.T. Express,
Juan Atkins,
The Walker Brothers,
Terrestrial Tones,
Grandmaster Flash,
Visage,
The Barracudas,
Johnny Clarke,
In Retrospect,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Mary Jane Girls,
John Foxx,
the Human League,
Nils Olav,
Pantytec,
Tropical Tobacco,
Quantec,
Sexual Harrassment,
Harpers Bizarre,
the Normal,
Lindisfarne,
Bootsy Collins,
Rakim,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Joensuu 1685,
The Fuzztones,
Soft Cell,
Colin Newman,
Barrington Levy,
Chris Corsano,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Fear,
Arab on Radar,
Q65,
Buzzcocks,
The Misunderstood,
Frankie Knuckles,
8 Eyed Spy,
EPMD,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Hoover, Hoover, Hoover, Hoover.
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.