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 Peru and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 MC5 to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Kayak. All the underground hits.
All Minutemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pylon 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alphaville record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joyce Sims,
Monks,
Rotary Connection,
John Cale,
Mary Jane Girls,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Sparks,
Black Bananas,
The Walker Brothers,
Bizarre Inc.,
Idris Muhammad,
CMW,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Music Machine,
The Cramps,
Tears for Fears,
The Litter,
The Associates,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Swell Maps,
Simply Red,
Don Cherry,
Maurizio,
Bluetip,
Marine Girls,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Move,
Motorama,
Freddie Wadling,
The Buckinghams,
Amazonics,
Robert Hood,
The Vogues,
The Slackers,
The Leaves,
David McCallum,
The Doors,
Kurtis Blow,
Hoover,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Radio Birdman,
Q65,
Mission of Burma,
Eli Mardock,
Depeche Mode,
Bobby Womack,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Fall,
The Motions,
Barry Ungar,
Yazoo,
X-101,
Derrick Morgan,
Quadrant,
Pylon,
10cc,
Magazine,
Index,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.