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 Moldova and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Technova to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Gang of Four. All the underground hits.
All John Foxx tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Five Americans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The J.B.'s,
Roger Hodgson,
Unrelated Segments,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Robert Hood,
Sister Nancy,
X-101,
Angry Samoans,
Deakin,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Cameo,
Tomorrow,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Charles Mingus,
Spandau Ballet,
Cybotron,
Rites of Spring,
Gang of Four,
Television Personalities,
Juan Atkins,
Lungfish,
Eric Copeland,
Unwound,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Smiths,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Kayak,
Little Man,
The Birthday Party,
Drexciya,
Marc Almond,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lalo Schifrin,
Interpol,
The Cure,
Alice Coltrane,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Severed Heads,
Frankie Knuckles,
Fatback Band,
Monks,
Lou Reed,
Pantaleimon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sexual Harrassment,
John Foxx,
Wolf Eyes,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sun City Girls,
Davy DMX,
Warsaw,
Soulsonic Force,
Byron Stingily,
The Pop Group,
Metal Thangz,
Hasil Adkins,
This Heat,
Television,
Funky Four + One,
The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos.
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.