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 Korea South and from Manchester.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the linndrum 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 The Peanut Butter Conspiracy to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap. All the underground hits.
All Susan Cadogan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Fania All-Stars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Happenings record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deakin,
The Blackbyrds,
MC5,
Fear,
The United States of America,
Eurythmics,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Trumans Water,
Electric Prunes,
DNA,
Patti Smith,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Sound,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Pretty Things,
OOIOO,
Suicide,
Silicon Teens,
Vladislav Delay,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Kayak,
The Wake,
Liliput,
John Lydon,
Tubeway Army,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Q and Not U,
Livin' Joy,
Althea and Donna,
Monks,
Rufus Thomas,
The Gladiators,
X-101,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lyres,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Fuzztones,
10cc,
Bill Near,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Bobby Hutcherson,
D'Angelo,
Au Pairs,
Alice Coltrane,
The Mojo Men,
Q65,
Funky Four + One,
Rotary Connection,
David Bowie,
Icehouse,
Robert Görl,
Soulsonic Force,
Lakeside,
Drexciya,
The New Christs,
Grey Daturas,
Oneida,
The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band.
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.