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 Jamaica and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Depeche Mode to the grunge 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 K-Klass. All the underground hits.
All Notorious Big And Bone Thugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Symarip record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Hill record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Shadows of Knight,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Anthony Braxton,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Surgeon,
Lou Reed,
Niagra,
Marshall Jefferson,
Y Pants,
Crime,
Danielle Patucci,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Gun Club,
Susan Cadogan,
Aaron Thompson,
Von Mondo,
Kerri Chandler,
Girls At Our Best!,
Juan Atkins,
Television Personalities,
Traffic Nightmare,
Ultra Naté,
Nick Fraelich,
Hashim,
The J.B.'s,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Moebius,
Intrusion,
Siglo XX,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Cecil Taylor,
Judy Mowatt,
Vainqueur,
John Cale,
John Foxx,
Au Pairs,
Bobby Byrd,
Kool Moe Dee,
Scrapy,
New Age Steppers,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Mojo Men,
Harry Pussy,
Dennis Brown,
Icehouse,
Yaz,
Godley & Creme,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Busters,
Interpol,
The Buckinghams,
Flamin' Groovies,
Gong,
X-Ray Spex,
Inner City,
Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats.
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.