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 Cuba and from Taipei.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Spokane.
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 mellotron 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 Saccharine Trust to the rock 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron. All the underground hits.
All Interpol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blake Baxter 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Blackbyrds,
Icehouse,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Bootsy Collins,
Erykah Badu,
Goldenarms,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Dorothy Ashby,
Thee Headcoats,
Maurizio,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Guru Guru,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Kas Product,
Scratch Acid,
Moebius,
Wire,
Mandrill,
Magazine,
Aural Exciters,
Black Flag,
Joey Negro,
Zapp,
DJ Style,
Sarah Menescal,
The Smoke,
X-102,
Reuben Wilson,
Derrick Morgan,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ronan,
Ultra Naté,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Nico,
Adolescents,
The Monochrome Set,
The Invisible,
Jawbox,
The Victims,
Erasure,
Roxy Music,
Steve Hackett,
U.S. Maple,
Scion,
kango's stein massive,
The Stooges,
Scott Walker,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Count Five,
Gong,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Eddi Front,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
New Age Steppers,
Audionom,
Echospace,
Q65,
Scan 7,
The Mojo Men,
Ituana,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Stetsasonic,
The Pretty Things,
Davy DMX,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
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.