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 Ukraine and from Paris.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin 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 David McCallum to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Metal Thangz. All the underground hits.
All Half Japanese tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shoche,
Das Ding,
Piero Umiliani,
the Swans,
Make Up,
JFA,
Rites of Spring,
The Mojo Men,
Soul II Soul,
Gichy Dan,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Agitation Free,
Quantec,
Television Personalities,
Yellowson,
Arthur Verocai,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Real Kids,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Frankie Knuckles,
Lou Christie,
Graham Central Station,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Barrington Levy,
Mars,
The Fire Engines,
Second Layer,
48th St. Collective,
Tres Demented,
The Neon Judgement,
Gang Gang Dance,
LL Cool J,
Pierre Henry,
Dave Gahan,
Bill Near,
John Cale,
The Fall,
Fad Gadget,
Hardrive,
Nick Fraelich,
Massinfluence,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Organ,
Young Marble Giants,
Silicon Teens,
The Kinks,
Stiv Bators,
Talk Talk,
The Mighty Diamonds,
A Certain Ratio,
Donny Hathaway,
Lungfish,
Lou Reed,
Eli Mardock,
Grey Daturas,
Darondo,
It's A Beautiful Day,
the Human League,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Eric Dolphy,
The Five Americans,
The Monks,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Cure, The Cure, The Cure, The Cure.
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.