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 Tajikistan and from Lille.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 guitar 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 Lou Reed & Metallica to the crunk 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 Music Machine. All the underground hits.
All Scion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drexciya 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Danielle Patucci record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
Eric B and Rakim,
Michelle Simonal,
Rosa Yemen,
Dave Gahan,
Newcleus,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Guru Guru,
The Litter,
Q65,
The Stooges,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
New Age Steppers,
Excepter,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Cybotron,
Fela Kuti,
The Dave Clark Five,
Alton Ellis,
Camouflage,
Tommy Roe,
Lightning Bolt,
The Modern Lovers,
Pagans,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Chris & Cosey,
Porter Ricks,
Erasure,
Altered Images,
B.T. Express,
Nico,
Jandek,
T. Rex,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
10cc,
The Pop Group,
Derrick Morgan,
The Count Five,
David McCallum,
Brand Nubian,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Davy DMX,
Skriet,
Big Daddy Kane,
Kenny Larkin,
The Cure,
The Vogues,
ABC,
Tom Boy,
Main Source,
Crispy Ambulance,
Tim Buckley,
Minutemen,
Radio Birdman,
Basic Channel,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Gang Green,
Todd Terry,
Colin Newman,
Bad Manners, Bad Manners, Bad Manners, Bad Manners.
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.