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 Libya and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 güiro 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 Soul Sonic Force to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Swans. All the underground hits.
All Panda Bear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boogie Down Productions 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 chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roger Hodgson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerri Chandler,
Young Marble Giants,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Soft Cell,
The Walker Brothers,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Outsiders,
Sunsets and Hearts,
8 Eyed Spy,
Kool Moe Dee,
Skaos,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
DJ Style,
Morten Harket,
Letta Mbulu,
Andrew Hill,
Faraquet,
Silicon Teens,
Moss Icon,
Erasure,
Kenny Larkin,
Desert Stars,
The Dirtbombs,
Derrick May,
Stereo Dub,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Index,
Zapp,
DNA,
Amon Düül,
The Detroit Cobras,
cv313,
Derrick Morgan,
Hot Snakes,
Agent Orange,
Pere Ubu,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Talk Talk,
Bobby Sherman,
Sonic Youth,
Radio Birdman,
Fat Boys,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
CMW,
Basic Channel,
John Cale,
China Crisis,
ABBA,
Barbara Tucker,
The Evens,
Curtis Mayfield,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Skriet,
FM Einheit,
Cecil Taylor,
Easy Going,
The Birthday Party,
Unrelated Segments,
Tommy Roe,
PIL,
Sexual Harrassment,
Malaria!,
Angry Samoans, Angry Samoans, Angry Samoans, Angry Samoans.
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.