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 Panama and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 rhodes 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 Jacques Brel to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 John Holt. All the underground hits.
All Kevin Saunderson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Parry Music 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visage record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Althea and Donna,
Simply Red,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
MC5,
Amon Düül,
Lower 48,
Circle Jerks,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Morten Harket,
The Dirtbombs,
Scan 7,
Groovy Waters,
Glenn Branca,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Nico,
X-Ray Spex,
Godley & Creme,
MDC,
Quadrant,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Crash Course in Science,
Idris Muhammad,
The Smoke,
Eric Dolphy,
Whodini,
Ossler,
Ice-T,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Roxy Music,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Schoolly D,
Television Personalities,
Sonic Youth,
The Fall,
Jacob Miller,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Pierre Henry,
Supertramp,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Magazine,
The Stooges,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Smiths,
Joyce Sims,
Jimmy McGriff,
Inner City,
Lyres,
LL Cool J,
Slave,
This Heat,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sound Behaviour,
The Golliwogs,
Al Stewart,
Barry Ungar,
Sam Rivers,
The Offenders,
Make Up,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Moody Blues,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum.
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.