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 Cameroon and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Duran Duran to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Grandmaster Flash. All the underground hits.
All The Pop Group tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Junior Murvin 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
Soulsonic Force,
Technova,
The Raincoats,
Marmalade,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Das Ding,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Ornette Coleman,
the Swans,
Youth Brigade,
Section 25,
Public Image Ltd.,
Trumans Water,
The Wake,
Chris & Cosey,
Delta 5,
Fad Gadget,
Sugar Minott,
Albert Ayler,
Dark Day,
Lou Reed,
Swans,
The Cramps,
Hardrive,
the Bar-Kays,
Black Flag,
Mark Hollis,
Bad Manners,
T.S.O.L.,
OOIOO,
Maurizio,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Moby Grape,
The Leaves,
Bootsy Collins,
Yaz,
The Moody Blues,
EPMD,
Average White Band,
The Blues Magoos,
The Standells,
Crime,
Dave Gahan,
Suburban Knight,
Aswad,
PIL,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sun Ra,
Delon & Dalcan,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
La Düsseldorf,
Interpol,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Dawn Penn,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Roxette,
Eric Dolphy,
Pere Ubu,
Faust, Faust, Faust, Faust.
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.