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 Pakistan and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Gregory Isaacs. All the underground hits.
All Babytalk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a World's Most record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Brass Construction,
Tommy Roe,
Alton Ellis,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Anakelly,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Barclay James Harvest,
Man Eating Sloth,
Loose Ends,
Wire,
DJ Sneak,
Robert Wyatt,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Cheater Slicks,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Piero Umiliani,
Reuben Wilson,
Althea and Donna,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sparks,
Sun Ra,
Funkadelic,
Royal Trux,
Alice Coltrane,
These Immortal Souls,
Agent Orange,
Michelle Simonal,
Moss Icon,
The J.B.'s,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Los Fastidios,
Don Cherry,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Todd Rundgren,
B.T. Express,
Howard Jones,
The Tremeloes,
Yazoo,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
8 Eyed Spy,
Soft Cell,
Chris Corsano,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Doors,
Talk Talk,
Aaron Thompson,
Bad Manners,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Slick Rick,
Theoretical Girls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rites of Spring,
Traffic Nightmare,
Country Teasers,
Nation of Ulysses,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Kool Moe Dee,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.