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 Australia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 clarinet 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 The Motions to the crunk 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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All The Detroit Cobras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stetsasonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bauhaus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Letta Mbulu,
Duran Duran,
Nas,
Ultimate Spinach,
Joe Smooth,
Second Layer,
Kool Moe Dee,
Warsaw,
The Index,
Livin' Joy,
Bush Tetras,
DJ Style,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Schoolly D,
One Last Wish,
Barrington Levy,
Kerri Chandler,
Zero Boys,
Electric Prunes,
R.M.O.,
The Electric Prunes,
Black Flag,
Y Pants,
Radio Birdman,
The Moleskins,
Mission of Burma,
Janne Schatter,
Chris & Cosey,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Danielle Patucci,
Icehouse,
Arcadia,
Pole,
Joy Division,
Sparks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Toasters,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Dirtbombs,
The Golliwogs,
Little Man,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Knickerbockers,
Easy Going,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Con Funk Shun,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Alphaville,
The Moody Blues,
Derrick Morgan,
Agitation Free,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sarah Menescal,
Fela Kuti,
FM Einheit,
The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine.
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.