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 Greece and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 synthesizer 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 The Motions to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Motions. All the underground hits.
All Zero Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Martian record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crispy Ambulance,
Whodini,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Peter & Gordon,
Easy Going,
Nirvana,
the Bar-Kays,
Don Cherry,
Arcadia,
The Remains,
The Victims,
Rod Modell,
Janne Schatter,
Moss Icon,
The Gories,
Television Personalities,
Todd Rundgren,
the Slits,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Laurel Aitken,
The Real Kids,
Graham Central Station,
Symarip,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Banda Bassotti,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Thee Headcoats,
Nico,
Quando Quango,
Circle Jerks,
Kerrie Biddell,
Public Image Ltd.,
Joensuu 1685,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Wolf Eyes,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Funkadelic,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Absolute Body Control,
Brass Construction,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Standells,
Ossler,
The Dead C,
Lower 48,
Wings,
Dead Boys,
Accadde A,
Goldenarms,
China Crisis,
Patti Smith,
Barry Ungar,
Angry Samoans,
Crime,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Stockholm Monsters,
Groovy Waters,
Basic Channel,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Can,
The Vogues,
B.T. Express,
10cc, 10cc, 10cc, 10cc.
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.