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 Tajikistan and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the theremin 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 Ten City to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Matthew Bourne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Grauzone,
Pagans,
Crash Course in Science,
Pet Shop Boys,
The American Breed,
Bluetip,
Yellowson,
Agitation Free,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bobby Byrd,
Deepchord,
Junior Murvin,
Porter Ricks,
World's Most,
Basic Channel,
Marmalade,
Albert Ayler,
Black Flag,
Boredoms,
Susan Cadogan,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lou Reed,
the Bar-Kays,
Soft Machine,
Harmonia,
Lalo Schifrin,
Pylon,
June of 44,
Sixth Finger,
LL Cool J,
Kaleidoscope,
The Modern Lovers,
Gichy Dan,
Crispian St. Peters,
T. Rex,
The Knickerbockers,
Chrome,
The Leaves,
Bush Tetras,
The Invisible,
Soft Cell,
The Barracudas,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Oblivians,
Yaz,
Byron Stingily,
Quando Quango,
The Residents,
Anthony Braxton,
Babytalk,
John Cale,
Tom Boy,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
UT,
Ludus,
The Star Department,
Erasure,
Fad Gadget,
The Last Poets,
Cymande,
Flash Fearless,
The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques.
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.