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 Bulgaria and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Wire to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Ultimate Spinach. All the underground hits.
All Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fluxion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barry Ungar record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liaisons Dangereuses,
D'Angelo,
Shuggie Otis,
ABC,
Sex Pistols,
La Düsseldorf,
The Index,
Heaven 17,
Curtis Mayfield,
Harpers Bizarre,
Desert Stars,
Kaleidoscope,
Drive Like Jehu,
Glambeats Corp.,
DNA,
Jesper Dahlback,
Slick Rick,
China Crisis,
New Order,
Unrelated Segments,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Brothers Johnson,
Oneida,
Graham Central Station,
Lindisfarne,
John Holt,
The Slackers,
Main Source,
Quantec,
Monolake,
June of 44,
T. Rex,
The Beau Brummels,
Jacques Brel,
CMW,
Liliput,
Peter & Gordon,
Royal Trux,
James White and The Blacks,
Masters at Work,
Lyres,
Althea and Donna,
Quando Quango,
Marshall Jefferson,
Joe Finger,
The Remains,
Schoolly D,
The Searchers,
Nils Olav,
Lou Reed,
Ponytail,
Godley & Creme,
Little Man,
X-102,
JFA,
Alison Limerick,
Grandmaster Flash,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Electric Prunes,
The Buckinghams,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Bizarre Inc.,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.