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 Greece and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Hashim 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 Sandy B. All the underground hits.
All Black Pus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Matthew Bourne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Maleditus Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Dave Clark Five,
Alison Limerick,
The Invisible,
June of 44,
Bizarre Inc.,
Cal Tjader,
Duran Duran,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Cecil Taylor,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Moebius,
UT,
Mr. Review,
Black Sheep,
OOIOO,
Agent Orange,
Schoolly D,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
MC5,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sex Pistols,
June Days,
Faust,
Television,
The Saints,
Derrick Morgan,
Charles Mingus,
Donny Hathaway,
Max Romeo,
Brass Construction,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sarah Menescal,
The Offenders,
Television Personalities,
Jawbox,
The Black Dice,
Roxy Music,
Model 500,
Soulsonic Force,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Heaven 17,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Lalann,
Can,
Marc Almond,
The Last Poets,
Lakeside,
The Searchers,
Carl Craig,
Archie Shepp,
T.S.O.L.,
James White and The Blacks,
Gong,
Khruangbin,
Drexciya,
The Sonics,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Gang Gang Dance,
Johnny Clarke, Johnny Clarke, Johnny Clarke, Johnny Clarke.
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.