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 Austria and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Television to the disco 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 Beasts of Bourbon. All the underground hits.
All Nils Olav tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultravox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lee Hazlewood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Eurythmics,
Morten Harket,
Jandek,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Saccharine Trust,
The Kinks,
X-102,
Urselle,
Drive Like Jehu,
Aural Exciters,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Unwound,
Joey Negro,
The Stooges,
John Holt,
In Retrospect,
Barry Ungar,
Gichy Dan,
One Last Wish,
Howard Jones,
The Happenings,
Tomorrow,
Surgeon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gabor Szabo,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Ultravox,
Andrew Hill,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Animal Collective,
Q65,
Alphaville,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Moody Blues,
Simply Red,
The Flesh Eaters,
LL Cool J,
Motorama,
Smog,
Lalann,
The Neon Judgement,
Amon Düül,
Sister Nancy,
The Move,
The Gories,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Symarip,
Ralphi Rosario,
Nils Olav,
Icehouse,
The Young Rascals,
Suicide,
Man Parrish,
Subhumans,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Gong,
Soft Machine,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Niagra,
Reuben Wilson,
Pharoah Sanders,
Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station.
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.