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 Croatia and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Lower 48 to the dance 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 Tubeway Army. All the underground hits.
All Yellowson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cybotron 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alphaville record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drive Like Jehu,
Man Eating Sloth,
Youth Brigade,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Sonic Youth,
Easy Going,
Mission of Burma,
The Slits,
Aural Exciters,
Charles Mingus,
Jerry's Kids,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Brick,
Pylon,
Moebius,
New Order,
Toni Rubio,
Rufus Thomas,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Oneida,
Nirvana,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Supertramp,
Visage,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Nick Fraelich,
Crime,
Derrick May,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Maurizio,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Wire,
World's Most,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Animal Collective,
The Skatalites,
Funky Four + One,
Susan Cadogan,
Delon & Dalcan,
Clear Light,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Deadbeat,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Vogues,
MC5,
Rekid,
8 Eyed Spy,
Outsiders,
Lee Hazlewood,
Rakim,
Alton Ellis,
Swans,
Ultravox,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Dual Sessions,
Slick Rick,
DNA,
Avey Tare,
Mo-Dettes,
Gang Starr,
The Five Americans,
T.S.O.L.,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.