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 Cuba and from Edmonton.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 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 Lyres to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Sun Ra Arkestra. All the underground hits.
All Sad Lovers and Giants tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Spandau Ballet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Tremeloes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sunsets and Hearts,
Eurythmics,
The Fugs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Juan Atkins,
Skarface,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Gap Band,
Amazonics,
The Music Machine,
Piero Umiliani,
T. Rex,
Pagans,
Deakin,
Al Stewart,
Lungfish,
Scion,
Maurizio,
Bizarre Inc.,
Iggy Pop,
The Names,
Hardrive,
Traffic Nightmare,
Mary Jane Girls,
Bill Wells,
Dark Day,
Ultra Naté,
Fear,
Half Japanese,
ABC,
Little Man,
The Fall,
Crispy Ambulance,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Arab on Radar,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Gories,
Crash Course in Science,
The Doobie Brothers,
Carl Craig,
Lightning Bolt,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Grass Roots,
The United States of America,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Joensuu 1685,
the Swans,
Kerri Chandler,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Prince Buster,
Scratch Acid,
Sister Nancy,
The Martian,
Hoover,
Barclay James Harvest,
Sex Pistols,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Techniques,
Japan,
Jimmy McGriff,
Swans,
The Trojans,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.