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 Kenya and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 theremin 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 Jesper Dahlbäck to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Gladiators. All the underground hits.
All Ultravox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Style 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Remains record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Groovy Waters,
Ronan,
Accadde A,
Derrick May,
The Real Kids,
Mary Jane Girls,
David Axelrod,
The Toasters,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Boz Scaggs,
Minutemen,
Neu!,
Sam Rivers,
Fugazi,
The Doobie Brothers,
Faraquet,
Vladislav Delay,
Pierre Henry,
Deepchord,
World's Most,
Nico,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ultimate Spinach,
cv313,
Boogie Down Productions,
Marine Girls,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sarah Menescal,
Panda Bear,
Gil Scott Heron,
Moebius,
Black Sheep,
Soul II Soul,
Basic Channel,
The Motions,
The Electric Prunes,
Thompson Twins,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Michelle Simonal,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Fuzztones,
James White and The Blacks,
Sun City Girls,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Joey Negro,
Bill Wells,
E-Dancer,
Television,
Rites of Spring,
The Skatalites,
Flamin' Groovies,
Reuben Wilson,
Flash Fearless,
Gichy Dan,
Eric Copeland,
The Zeros,
Mo-Dettes,
L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne.
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.