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 Azerbaijan and from Mumbai.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Seoul.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
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 Jacob Miller to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Pole. All the underground hits.
All The Offenders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sarah Menescal 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 guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lizzy Mercier Descloux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Amon Düül,
Cal Tjader,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Pere Ubu,
The Blues Magoos,
Man Eating Sloth,
It's A Beautiful Day,
New Age Steppers,
The Sonics,
Echospace,
The Human League,
The Gladiators,
Letta Mbulu,
Scion,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Ronan,
Talk Talk,
This Heat,
the Fania All-Stars,
Funkadelic,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Reagan Youth,
The Trojans,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Visage,
Thee Headcoats,
Silicon Teens,
ABC,
Scrapy,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Kayak,
Yaz,
The Index,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Matthew Bourne,
Eve St. Jones,
Loose Ends,
Stetsasonic,
Second Layer,
Prince Buster,
Grandmaster Flash,
Radiopuhelimet,
David Bowie,
Gabor Szabo,
The Gun Club,
Mad Mike,
Oblivians,
cv313,
Skarface,
Zero Boys,
Babytalk,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Seeds,
Lyres,
Sparks,
Ten City,
Anthony Braxton,
The Saints,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sugar Minott,
Soul II Soul,
Danielle Patucci,
Erasure, Erasure, Erasure, Erasure.
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.