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 Finland and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 arpeggiator 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 Siglo XX to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 ABC. All the underground hits.
All Symarip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Associates record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arcadia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Junior Murvin,
The Fugs,
Metal Thangz,
In Retrospect,
Lee Hazlewood,
Blossom Toes,
Harry Pussy,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Chris & Cosey,
Franke,
Japan,
Simply Red,
Wally Richardson,
MDC,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Soft Machine,
The Kinks,
Bauhaus,
T. Rex,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Scientists,
Los Fastidios,
Chrome,
Sugar Minott,
Silicon Teens,
The Seeds,
Erykah Badu,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bang On A Can,
Pylon,
The Fall,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Oblivians,
Wolf Eyes,
Rod Modell,
R.M.O.,
Funky Four + One,
La Düsseldorf,
Arab on Radar,
Alison Limerick,
Q and Not U,
John Coltrane,
The Beau Brummels,
Tomorrow,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Vogues,
Young Marble Giants,
Terrestrial Tones,
Wire,
The Litter,
Underground Resistance,
Swell Maps,
Scion,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Derrick Morgan,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
X-101,
Eric Copeland,
a-ha,
Crispian St. Peters,
Liliput,
Danielle Patucci,
Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia.
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.