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 Lebanon and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Don Cherry to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Swans. All the underground hits.
All Animal Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Buzzcocks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Remains record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Can,
Ultra Naté,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Wings,
Thompson Twins,
The Buckinghams,
Delta 5,
Jeff Mills,
Graham Central Station,
Pagans,
The Tremeloes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
These Immortal Souls,
Big Daddy Kane,
Eli Mardock,
Q and Not U,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Glambeats Corp.,
Susan Cadogan,
Suicide,
Davy DMX,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Ken Boothe,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Skatalites,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Rotary Connection,
The American Breed,
Thee Headcoats,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Scion,
Cymande,
Ultravox,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Evens,
Lyres,
Wire,
Scan 7,
The Cure,
Lower 48,
Funky Four + One,
Clear Light,
Inner City,
Boredoms,
Tres Demented,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
One Last Wish,
June of 44,
The Real Kids,
Leonard Cohen,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Barracudas,
Fluxion,
Carl Craig,
Bill Near,
Jesper Dahlback,
Dawn Penn,
The Wake,
Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks.
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.