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 Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 theremin 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 Sunsets and Hearts 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 Magma. All the underground hits.
All The Blues Magoos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stereo Dub record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vainqueur record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
The Toasters,
The Victims,
Gil Scott Heron,
DJ Style,
The Wake,
Average White Band,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Pylon,
Banda Bassotti,
The Blues Magoos,
The Monks,
Marvin Gaye,
Jesper Dahlback,
Funky Four + One,
Marc Almond,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Quando Quango,
T. Rex,
Infiniti,
Kerrie Biddell,
Brothers Johnson,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Motions,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Peter & Gordon,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Tubeway Army,
Idris Muhammad,
Lungfish,
Darondo,
Lakeside,
Avey Tare,
Tres Demented,
The Five Americans,
Man Parrish,
Severed Heads,
The Evens,
Lindisfarne,
The Fire Engines,
the Sonics,
Hasil Adkins,
Young Marble Giants,
Roy Ayers,
Cluster,
Bootsy Collins,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Man Eating Sloth,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Siglo XX,
World's Most,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Anthony Braxton,
Smog,
The Shadows of Knight,
Kaleidoscope,
Matthew Bourne,
Minnie Riperton,
Ronan,
LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J.
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.