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 Slovenia and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 güiro 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 Barry Ungar to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 De La Soul & Jungle Brothers. All the underground hits.
All DeepChord presents Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ken Boothe 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Knickerbockers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Juan Atkins,
The Names,
Sex Pistols,
Quando Quango,
Lower 48,
Animal Collective,
Alice Coltrane,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Count Five,
Lou Christie,
The Vogues,
Black Moon,
Soft Machine,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Iggy Pop,
The Neon Judgement,
Throbbing Gristle,
Black Pus,
The Fuzztones,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sandy B,
Patti Smith,
The Moleskins,
JFA,
Eurythmics,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
DJ Sneak,
the Fania All-Stars,
Television,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Peter and Kerry,
Whodini,
Fugazi,
Delta 5,
Von Mondo,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Pet Shop Boys,
Qualms,
Roxy Music,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Residents,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Dave Clark Five,
Junior Murvin,
Camberwell Now,
The Dead C,
E-Dancer,
Kevin Saunderson,
Nico,
UT,
One Last Wish,
Colin Newman,
John Foxx,
Rotary Connection,
Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A.
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.