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 Slovakia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 marimba 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 Maleditus Sound to the disco 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 Sonny Sharrock. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ronnie Foster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bang On A Can,
The Residents,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Faraquet,
Ronnie Foster,
X-101,
Accadde A,
Sight & Sound,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Fort Wilson Riot,
David McCallum,
Kaleidoscope,
Quantec,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Model 500,
Man Eating Sloth,
Junior Murvin,
Sixth Finger,
Cluster,
The Raincoats,
Cameo,
Dark Day,
Camberwell Now,
the Bar-Kays,
Man Parrish,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Cramps,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Blackbyrds,
Buzzcocks,
Television,
Silicon Teens,
Charles Mingus,
New Age Steppers,
The Barracudas,
The Techniques,
Cybotron,
UT,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Real Kids,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Ralphi Rosario,
Wasted Youth,
Pylon,
A Certain Ratio,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Mark Hollis,
Sister Nancy,
Easy Going,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Von Mondo,
the Germs,
Big Daddy Kane,
Stiv Bators,
Andrew Hill,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Doors,
Public Image Ltd.,
Theoretical Girls,
Juan Atkins,
Jandek,
Ultimate Spinach,
Aswad,
Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest.
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.