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 Guatemala and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Richard Hell and the Voidoids to the grime 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 Can. All the underground hits.
All Lucky Dragons tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anthony Braxton record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quando Quango,
The Tremeloes,
A Certain Ratio,
Lou Christie,
Delta 5,
Swans,
Average White Band,
The Human League,
Danielle Patucci,
The Doors,
The Move,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Smoke,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Adolescents,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lebanon Hanover,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Flipper,
Ten City,
Camberwell Now,
Ultimate Spinach,
Echospace,
World's Most,
Slick Rick,
Magma,
The Five Americans,
Blancmange,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ludus,
Robert Hood,
Colin Newman,
The Monks,
Avey Tare,
Jimmy McGriff,
Erykah Badu,
Radio Birdman,
Hot Snakes,
Josef K,
Lyres,
Brand Nubian,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Underground Resistance,
The Sisters of Mercy,
China Crisis,
Nick Fraelich,
a-ha,
Royal Trux,
Crispy Ambulance,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Wire,
Marmalade,
Unrelated Segments,
Angry Samoans,
The Skatalites,
X-102,
Sun Ra,
Susan Cadogan,
Crispian St. Peters,
Pussy Galore,
Masters at Work,
Scott Walker,
Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl.
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.