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 Togo and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Isaac Hayes to the techno 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 Accadde A. All the underground hits.
All The Names tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Little Man,
Gang of Four,
The Gun Club,
UT,
Heaven 17,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Iggy Pop,
The Invisible,
Kool Moe Dee,
Country Teasers,
Fluxion,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Suicide,
Al Stewart,
The Litter,
John Holt,
Yusef Lateef,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Funky Four + One,
Sugar Minott,
Dawn Penn,
The Searchers,
Jandek,
Schoolly D,
Ronan,
8 Eyed Spy,
Desert Stars,
Pylon,
Blancmange,
Sonny Sharrock,
Roxy Music,
Junior Murvin,
Joy Division,
The Doors,
Yazoo,
Shuggie Otis,
Technova,
Quando Quango,
Boogie Down Productions,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Agitation Free,
Barrington Levy,
Soft Cell,
The Count Five,
Gregory Isaacs,
Delon & Dalcan,
Groovy Waters,
Dave Gahan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Divine Comedy,
The Electric Prunes,
Absolute Body Control,
The Beau Brummels,
Stetsasonic,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Archie Shepp,
The Fuzztones,
Ludus,
Piero Umiliani,
Scan 7,
Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat.
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.