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 Argentina and from Portland.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Al Stewart to the punk 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 UT. All the underground hits.
All Wire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Seeds 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kaleidoscope record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nico,
the Association,
Brand Nubian,
The Moleskins,
Delta 5,
Spandau Ballet,
D'Angelo,
Little Man,
The Buckinghams,
The Trojans,
CMW,
Skarface,
Rapeman,
Avey Tare,
OOIOO,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Young Rascals,
Pere Ubu,
The Mojo Men,
Von Mondo,
KRS-One,
Todd Terry,
The Modern Lovers,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Stereo Dub,
The Saints,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Bill Wells,
Flash Fearless,
The Flesh Eaters,
Franke,
The Gladiators,
The Toasters,
The J.B.'s,
Andrew Hill,
The Pretty Things,
Sällskapet,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Harmonia,
David McCallum,
Bob Dylan,
The Fugs,
Joy Division,
Porter Ricks,
The American Breed,
Boz Scaggs,
Warsaw,
PIL,
Man Eating Sloth,
Malaria!,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Josef K,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Oneida,
Banda Bassotti,
Letta Mbulu,
The Gap Band,
Audionom,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Knickerbockers,
The Moody Blues,
Eurythmics,
Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks.
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.