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 Congo and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 oboe 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 Suburban Knight to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Gabor Szabo. All the underground hits.
All DNA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Divine Comedy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Guru Guru,
Adolescents,
Lucky Dragons,
Lou Christie,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Dave Gahan,
Boredoms,
Eden Ahbez,
Eric Dolphy,
Erasure,
Procol Harum,
The Modern Lovers,
Anthony Braxton,
Nirvana,
Leonard Cohen,
Main Source,
Pulsallama,
Kerri Chandler,
Arthur Verocai,
Soul II Soul,
Surgeon,
Wasted Youth,
The Associates,
Magma,
The Mummies,
Excepter,
MDC,
Darondo,
Zero Boys,
The Knickerbockers,
Grauzone,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Crime,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Gastr Del Sol,
Lakeside,
Alice Coltrane,
Susan Cadogan,
John Holt,
DJ Sneak,
Black Flag,
The Tremeloes,
Tears for Fears,
X-Ray Spex,
Niagra,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Funkadelic,
Delta 5,
Minutemen,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Marshall Jefferson,
FM Einheit,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Cure,
Spandau Ballet,
Aloha Tigers,
Babytalk,
Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith.
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.