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 Thailand and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 snare 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 Peter and Kerry to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Rapeman. All the underground hits.
All Second Layer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every London Community Gospel Choir record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anakelly,
Matthew Halsall,
Heaven 17,
Lower 48,
Darondo,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Boz Scaggs,
Sun Ra,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Blake Baxter,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Happenings,
Joe Finger,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Vogues,
Leonard Cohen,
Susan Cadogan,
Ponytail,
Bobby Womack,
Hasil Adkins,
Cluster,
Girls At Our Best!,
DJ Style,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Qualms,
The Selecter,
Ronan,
Joensuu 1685,
Groovy Waters,
Lindisfarne,
Boogie Down Productions,
Stockholm Monsters,
John Cale,
The Beau Brummels,
Eddi Front,
Big Daddy Kane,
New York Dolls,
The Gories,
Massinfluence,
Quadrant,
Derrick Morgan,
The Raincoats,
Marine Girls,
The Wake,
The Moleskins,
LL Cool J,
World's Most,
the Slits,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Visage,
Soft Cell,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Quantec,
Eli Mardock,
Kurtis Blow,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Parry Music,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sam Rivers,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine.
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.