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 Czech Republic and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Echo & the Bunnymen to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Loose Ends. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Bar-Kays 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Moon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sixth Finger,
10cc,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Gap Band,
The Pop Group,
The Count Five,
Eddi Front,
the Germs,
The Buckinghams,
Glenn Branca,
Kerri Chandler,
Lyres,
The Neon Judgement,
Kool Moe Dee,
Gang Gang Dance,
Echospace,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sun City Girls,
Brick,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sonny Sharrock,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Tommy Roe,
The Techniques,
Curtis Mayfield,
Faraquet,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Marc Almond,
Thee Headcoats,
Y Pants,
Urselle,
Zero Boys,
Bush Tetras,
Arcadia,
Basic Channel,
Todd Terry,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Dead C,
Freddie Wadling,
Morten Harket,
Kevin Saunderson,
Crispy Ambulance,
Nils Olav,
LL Cool J,
Scientists,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Gladiators,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Warren Ellis,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Nas,
Joey Negro,
Lower 48,
Ludus,
The American Breed,
The Vogues,
Sugar Minott,
Guru Guru,
The Real Kids,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.