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 Bahrain and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 harpsichord 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 Peter & Gordon to the grime 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 Byron Stingily. All the underground hits.
All Cybotron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Metal Thangz 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Louis and Bebe Barron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nas,
Ituana,
Gil Scott Heron,
Juan Atkins,
T.S.O.L.,
Marvin Gaye,
The Alarm Clocks,
Make Up,
X-102,
The Count Five,
the Normal,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Tommy Roe,
The American Breed,
Dual Sessions,
Lungfish,
Arab on Radar,
Ralphi Rosario,
Cheater Slicks,
The Mojo Men,
New Age Steppers,
Rod Modell,
Aloha Tigers,
DJ Sneak,
Chris & Cosey,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Tom Boy,
Crooked Eye,
Todd Terry,
The Knickerbockers,
The Motions,
Panda Bear,
Zapp,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Godley & Creme,
Con Funk Shun,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Boredoms,
Electric Prunes,
Unwound,
Bill Wells,
Stereo Dub,
Interpol,
Television Personalities,
The Cure,
Fatback Band,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Man Parrish,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Average White Band,
Ludus,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Neon Judgement,
Jeff Lynne,
Technova,
Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman.
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.