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 Finland and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 David Bowie 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 Babytalk to the rock 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 Roy Ayers. All the underground hits.
All Soulsonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quadrant record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Sherman,
Anthony Braxton,
Kurtis Blow,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Evens,
Drive Like Jehu,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Jawbox,
The Martian,
Toni Rubio,
Sight & Sound,
Freddie Wadling,
Kevin Saunderson,
Aural Exciters,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Susan Cadogan,
Dead Boys,
The Angels of Light,
Albert Ayler,
Amon Düül,
Roxy Music,
Agent Orange,
KRS-One,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Tears for Fears,
The Tremeloes,
Maleditus Sound,
Scott Walker,
The Modern Lovers,
Procol Harum,
Spoonie Gee,
John Foxx,
Soul II Soul,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sex Pistols,
Patti Smith,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Bootsy Collins,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Joyce Sims,
Junior Murvin,
Moss Icon,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Alphaville,
Gerry Rafferty,
New Order,
The Saints,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
FM Einheit,
Siglo XX,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Parry Music,
Mr. Review,
PIL,
Lindisfarne,
Skarface,
Ten City,
Quantec,
Model 500,
Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers.
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.