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 Bangladesh and from Glasgow.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and London.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the sitar 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 Liaisons Dangereuses to the electroclash 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 Minny Pops. All the underground hits.
All Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Near record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Fania All-Stars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
10cc,
Pole,
Metal Thangz,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Camberwell Now,
Quantec,
JFA,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Jacob Miller,
Sun Ra,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Stetsasonic,
Eric Dolphy,
Thompson Twins,
Al Stewart,
Alphaville,
Swans,
kango's stein massive,
Danielle Patucci,
Gichy Dan,
F. McDonald,
The Fugs,
Aural Exciters,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ohio Players,
Johnny Osbourne,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Los Fastidios,
Slick Rick,
Youth Brigade,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lyres,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
David McCallum,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lou Reed,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Dual Sessions,
The Seeds,
The Smoke,
Lebanon Hanover,
Blake Baxter,
The Five Americans,
Funky Four + One,
Rod Modell,
EPMD,
Y Pants,
Marc Almond,
Mission of Burma,
Icehouse,
The Music Machine,
Can,
Scott Walker,
MC5,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Busters,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Model 500,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Leonard Cohen,
Jandek, Jandek, Jandek, Jandek.
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.