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 Hungary and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 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 Godley & Creme to the grunge 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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All Clear Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kaleidoscope 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 mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ash Ra Tempel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Sonics,
Piero Umiliani,
Malaria!,
Technova,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Skatalites,
Aloha Tigers,
DJ Style,
Interpol,
Sex Pistols,
Franke,
Bob Dylan,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Johnny Osbourne,
Kool Moe Dee,
Eden Ahbez,
The Black Dice,
X-Ray Spex,
Second Layer,
Crime,
Groovy Waters,
The Monks,
The Kinks,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Modern Lovers,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Flamin' Groovies,
Talk Talk,
The Music Machine,
The Velvet Underground,
Al Stewart,
The Alarm Clocks,
La Düsseldorf,
Marcia Griffiths,
Scrapy,
Babytalk,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
K-Klass,
The Martian,
Gichy Dan,
Mark Hollis,
Fluxion,
Niagra,
Brass Construction,
Junior Murvin,
Monolake,
Bobby Byrd,
Lightning Bolt,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Gabor Szabo,
Sight & Sound,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Barclay James Harvest,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Schoolly D,
The Selecter,
Soul II Soul,
The Fuzztones,
Flash Fearless,
Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls.
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.