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 Russia and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Bologna.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine to the electroclash 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 Dave Clark Five. All the underground hits.
All Heaven 17 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television Personalities record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Rufus Thomas,
Scan 7,
10cc,
Liliput,
The Kinks,
The Fuzztones,
The Mojo Men,
Junior Murvin,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Sound,
Joe Smooth,
The Invisible,
CMW,
Jimmy McGriff,
Maleditus Sound,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Scratch Acid,
Thee Headcoats,
John Foxx,
The Residents,
The Pretty Things,
Soul II Soul,
The New Christs,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Skaos,
Andrew Hill,
Wolf Eyes,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Standells,
Underground Resistance,
Stockholm Monsters,
Popol Vuh,
Monolake,
Faust,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Negative Approach,
Goldenarms,
Interpol,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Franke,
Josef K,
Gang Green,
Anthony Braxton,
the Normal,
The Selecter,
John Coltrane,
Sparks,
Duran Duran,
Howard Jones,
Peter & Gordon,
Reagan Youth,
Yusef Lateef,
Rosa Yemen,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Freddie Wadling,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo.
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.