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 Switzerland and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Alphaville to the jazz 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Strawberry Alarm Clock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 an arpeggiator and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mummies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soft Machine,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Monolake,
James White and The Blacks,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Scion,
The Index,
Maurizio,
Thompson Twins,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Bizarre Inc.,
Robert Hood,
Lakeside,
Man Eating Sloth,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The American Breed,
Severed Heads,
Roxette,
Drexciya,
Easy Going,
The Remains,
Johnny Osbourne,
Donald Byrd,
Blancmange,
Gastr Del Sol,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Echospace,
Pere Ubu,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pantytec,
the Fania All-Stars,
Godley & Creme,
Wasted Youth,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Associates,
Siglo XX,
Ultimate Spinach,
Jimmy McGriff,
Eddi Front,
Tim Buckley,
X-101,
A Certain Ratio,
Arthur Verocai,
Aural Exciters,
Sam Rivers,
Crime,
Bootsy Collins,
Massinfluence,
Marc Almond,
Sarah Menescal,
Minor Threat,
Guru Guru,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
PIL,
Boz Scaggs,
The Smoke,
Duran Duran,
Crooked Eye,
Dennis Brown,
Jawbox,
The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers.
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.