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 Turkey and from Stockholm.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Arcadia to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Hoover. All the underground hits.
All Ken Boothe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Bowie 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Das Ding record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visage,
Make Up,
The Seeds,
Traffic Nightmare,
Technova,
Television,
Nirvana,
Joey Negro,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Lee Hazlewood,
Big Daddy Kane,
Marvin Gaye,
The Red Krayola,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Fugs,
Lightning Bolt,
Clear Light,
Eddi Front,
Blancmange,
Surgeon,
Youth Brigade,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Terry Callier,
The Victims,
Isaac Hayes,
Siglo XX,
Pussy Galore,
Max Romeo,
Minor Threat,
Joensuu 1685,
Flipper,
Ponytail,
Urselle,
Altered Images,
Second Layer,
Godley & Creme,
Aloha Tigers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Funky Four + One,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Monochrome Set,
Fluxion,
Oneida,
Fad Gadget,
Rapeman,
Radiohead,
Jesper Dahlback,
Leonard Cohen,
the Human League,
Thompson Twins,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Offenders,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Jimmy McGriff,
Eve St. Jones,
The Cure,
Interpol,
June of 44,
Mark Hollis,
Minutemen,
cv313,
Panda Bear,
Goldenarms,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.