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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 David Axelrod to the rock 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 Joyce Sims. All the underground hits.
All LL Cool J tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Slits record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Niagra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Panda Bear,
Zapp,
Pantytec,
Lightning Bolt,
Nico,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Janne Schatter,
Ludus,
Danielle Patucci,
Wally Richardson,
Al Stewart,
Fad Gadget,
Franke,
The Residents,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Raincoats,
Duran Duran,
MC5,
Roxy Music,
Barrington Levy,
Lower 48,
Jawbox,
Todd Terry,
Susan Cadogan,
Terrestrial Tones,
R.M.O.,
The Buckinghams,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Bill Near,
The Zeros,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Audionom,
Stereo Dub,
Brick,
Boz Scaggs,
Newcleus,
The Saints,
Peter & Gordon,
Main Source,
DJ Sneak,
Gastr Del Sol,
Grauzone,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Anakelly,
Joe Smooth,
Amazonics,
Jacob Miller,
Blossom Toes,
The Smiths,
David McCallum,
Hot Snakes,
Massinfluence,
The Fortunes,
Royal Trux,
Dorothy Ashby,
Television,
The Divine Comedy,
Robert Wyatt,
Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young.
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.