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 Niger and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 Shanghai and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 chamberlin 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 The Seeds to the jazz 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 Nils Olav. All the underground hits.
All The Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donny Hathaway,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Marshall Jefferson,
Q65,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Electric Light Orchestra,
the Normal,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Amon Düül,
Colin Newman,
Pantaleimon,
Los Fastidios,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Pere Ubu,
The Monochrome Set,
Index,
Derrick Morgan,
Delon & Dalcan,
Mission of Burma,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Big Daddy Kane,
Moby Grape,
UT,
Sight & Sound,
Quadrant,
MC5,
The Skatalites,
Man Parrish,
The Offenders,
Swans,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Angry Samoans,
Roger Hodgson,
The Knickerbockers,
Mad Mike,
Crispian St. Peters,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Black Bananas,
Minor Threat,
The Music Machine,
Erykah Badu,
Sam Rivers,
Black Sheep,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Velvet Underground,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Vladislav Delay,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Marc Almond,
Skaos,
Porter Ricks,
Scan 7,
New York Dolls,
Arab on Radar,
Cheater Slicks,
Donald Byrd,
Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front.
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.