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 Belgium and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Basic Channel to the grime 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 Drexciya. All the underground hits.
All Robert Wyatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Urselle record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Little Man,
Scan 7,
Crispian St. Peters,
Alphaville,
Moebius,
Public Image Ltd.,
Gang Starr,
Amon Düül II,
Urselle,
Jawbox,
Frankie Knuckles,
CMW,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Nation of Ulysses,
Pagans,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Alton Ellis,
The Alarm Clocks,
Electric Prunes,
Nick Fraelich,
Infiniti,
Bauhaus,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
China Crisis,
The Red Krayola,
Pet Shop Boys,
Flash Fearless,
Kenny Larkin,
Bad Manners,
Gang Gang Dance,
Stetsasonic,
Dennis Brown,
Cybotron,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Young Rascals,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
the Fania All-Stars,
Ultra Naté,
Dual Sessions,
Siglo XX,
Ohio Players,
DJ Sneak,
Ice-T,
The Monks,
Magma,
Minutemen,
The Neon Judgement,
Joe Smooth,
Derrick May,
The Doors,
Altered Images,
Sister Nancy,
Jeff Lynne,
Babytalk,
The Fire Engines,
Outsiders,
cv313,
Symarip,
Mark Hollis,
Audionom,
The Fugs,
The United States of America,
Aswad,
Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale.
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.