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 Sweden and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Buzzcocks to the disco 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 Panda Bear. All the underground hits.
All X-101 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gregory Isaacs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Fugazi,
Vainqueur,
The J.B.'s,
Audionom,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Icehouse,
DJ Style,
In Retrospect,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Soft Machine,
Cecil Taylor,
David Axelrod,
Section 25,
Boogie Down Productions,
Fad Gadget,
The Cramps,
Bronski Beat,
Livin' Joy,
Ornette Coleman,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Television Personalities,
Rhythm & Sound,
Can,
Adolescents,
Essential Logic,
Piero Umiliani,
the Normal,
Alice Coltrane,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ronnie Foster,
Marine Girls,
Massinfluence,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Joensuu 1685,
Thompson Twins,
X-102,
Ralphi Rosario,
Ultimate Spinach,
Mars,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
D'Angelo,
Soul Sonic Force,
Hasil Adkins,
Camouflage,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Kerrie Biddell,
MDC,
Junior Murvin,
Joyce Sims,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bizarre Inc.,
Nico,
Chris Corsano,
Desert Stars,
The Real Kids,
Arab on Radar,
Eli Mardock,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.