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 Tokyo.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Columbus.
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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Roy Ayers Ubiquity to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Visage. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flamin' Groovies 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Susan Cadogan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Holt,
Section 25,
DJ Sneak,
Godley & Creme,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kevin Saunderson,
Scientists,
Don Cherry,
Crispy Ambulance,
Sällskapet,
The Pretty Things,
Boz Scaggs,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Black Dice,
The Invisible,
Black Moon,
Grauzone,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Gastr Del Sol,
Rufus Thomas,
Lalann,
The Buckinghams,
Guru Guru,
Hoover,
Cheater Slicks,
Colin Newman,
Robert Görl,
Desert Stars,
Theoretical Girls,
Lindisfarne,
The Blackbyrds,
Toni Rubio,
Masters at Work,
Prince Buster,
Dorothy Ashby,
Hardrive,
Hashim,
Susan Cadogan,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Echospace,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Camouflage,
The Red Krayola,
Crash Course in Science,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Matthew Halsall,
Jeff Lynne,
Ken Boothe,
Rotary Connection,
Rapeman,
Aswad,
Unrelated Segments,
LL Cool J,
Negative Approach,
Bang On A Can,
Surgeon,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Interpol, Interpol, Interpol, Interpol.
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.