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 Micronesia and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin 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 Index to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Black Moon. All the underground hits.
All Japan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Subhumans 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lakeside,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Japan,
Kenny Larkin,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Searchers,
LL Cool J,
James White and The Blacks,
Sly & The Family Stone,
U.S. Maple,
Dead Boys,
Camberwell Now,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
David Axelrod,
The Gap Band,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Newcleus,
Darondo,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Shuggie Otis,
Kayak,
The Beau Brummels,
The Raincoats,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Ossler,
Pylon,
The New Christs,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Y Pants,
Tears for Fears,
The Neon Judgement,
The Flesh Eaters,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
New York Dolls,
The Associates,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Marcia Griffiths,
Deadbeat,
the Association,
Joyce Sims,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Talk Talk,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Leonard Cohen,
La Düsseldorf,
Henry Cow,
Easy Going,
Wolf Eyes,
Robert Hood,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Jandek,
Jeff Lynne,
The Litter,
Blossom Toes,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Quando Quango,
Motorama,
Radiopuhelimet,
Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters.
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.