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 Thailand and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 sitar 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 Warren Ellis to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Monks. All the underground hits.
All Jandek tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Vogues record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Desert Stars,
The Music Machine,
The Martian,
Country Teasers,
Dennis Brown,
Neu!,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Dawn Penn,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Modern Lovers,
Roger Hodgson,
Talk Talk,
The Misunderstood,
The Stooges,
Theoretical Girls,
Nirvana,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Angels of Light,
The Blackbyrds,
Iggy Pop,
Eric B and Rakim,
Basic Channel,
The Moody Blues,
Peter and Kerry,
Youth Brigade,
Urselle,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
This Heat,
Nils Olav,
Wire,
MC5,
Peter & Gordon,
Cybotron,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eurythmics,
X-102,
Stiv Bators,
The Happenings,
Zero Boys,
Sex Pistols,
Arab on Radar,
Little Man,
Chris Corsano,
Rotary Connection,
Leonard Cohen,
The Doobie Brothers,
Throbbing Gristle,
Rosa Yemen,
Porter Ricks,
Rapeman,
Scientists,
Easy Going,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Q and Not U,
Organ,
Yellowson,
ABC,
Los Fastidios,
Carl Craig,
Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz.
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.