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 China and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the guitar 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron to the grime 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 Avey Tare. All the underground hits.
All DNA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Trojans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an arpeggiator and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a FM Einheit record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boz Scaggs,
Wally Richardson,
Gang Green,
Fluxion,
Alison Limerick,
Dave Gahan,
The Real Kids,
The Beau Brummels,
Ponytail,
Flipper,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Magazine,
The Victims,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Gap Band,
Wings,
The Black Dice,
The Cowsills,
John Cale,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Electric Prunes,
Joy Division,
Spoonie Gee,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
MDC,
Andrew Hill,
David Bowie,
The Divine Comedy,
Amon Düül,
Ultravox,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DNA,
the Germs,
Nick Fraelich,
Janne Schatter,
The Saints,
Sun Ra,
Fugazi,
Bizarre Inc.,
Slick Rick,
The Misunderstood,
Scratch Acid,
Anthony Braxton,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Bobby Sherman,
Accadde A,
8 Eyed Spy,
Can,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Rufus Thomas,
Jerry's Kids,
Harmonia,
Big Daddy Kane,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Jerry Gold Smith,
L. Decosne,
Wire,
Metal Thangz,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Moss Icon,
Gil Scott Heron,
Jandek, Jandek, Jandek, Jandek.
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.