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 Iran and from Toronto.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Fugazi to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Jeff Lynne. All the underground hits.
All the Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Don Cherry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Blues Magoos,
June of 44,
Grey Daturas,
Loose Ends,
Altered Images,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Howard Jones,
Electric Light Orchestra,
kango's stein massive,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Dawn Penn,
The Cure,
Danielle Patucci,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Cymande,
Brick,
Deakin,
The Moody Blues,
Skriet,
Basic Channel,
The Motions,
The Doors,
Leonard Cohen,
Crooked Eye,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
DJ Sneak,
Simply Red,
Ken Boothe,
Skarface,
Lower 48,
OOIOO,
Peter and Kerry,
The Buckinghams,
Eurythmics,
Easy Going,
Gang Starr,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Arab on Radar,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Rites of Spring,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Joensuu 1685,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Marmalade,
The Golliwogs,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Jacob Miller,
The Victims,
Severed Heads,
Von Mondo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Henry Cow,
Television,
Alison Limerick,
Kas Product,
48th St. Collective,
The Barracudas,
Banda Bassotti,
Bad Manners,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
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.