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 Morocco and from Manchester.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the organ 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 Bobby Womack to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Harry Pussy. All the underground hits.
All The Techniques tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DNA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Christie record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
DJ Sneak,
Nik Kershaw,
Excepter,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Michelle Simonal,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Subhumans,
Sister Nancy,
The Fugs,
Oneida,
Joensuu 1685,
Gastr Del Sol,
Pussy Galore,
The Associates,
Arthur Verocai,
Johnny Osbourne,
Smog,
Barry Ungar,
Khruangbin,
Delta 5,
John Cale,
Rekid,
Boz Scaggs,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Quadrant,
Wire,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Joy Division,
Mo-Dettes,
Talk Talk,
Kerri Chandler,
Royal Trux,
PIL,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Kerrie Biddell,
Quantec,
Dual Sessions,
Althea and Donna,
The Litter,
Cluster,
Radiopuhelimet,
Faraquet,
Cecil Taylor,
Sam Rivers,
Faust,
Big Daddy Kane,
La Düsseldorf,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Section 25,
JFA,
Public Enemy,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lucky Dragons,
Roxette,
E-Dancer,
Pharoah Sanders,
the Soft Cell,
China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis.
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.