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 Micronesia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Rhythm & Sound to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Tremeloes. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlback tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy Collins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxy Music,
Flipper,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Organ,
Donny Hathaway,
The Raincoats,
Pussy Galore,
The Monochrome Set,
Alison Limerick,
Adolescents,
Talk Talk,
Dual Sessions,
Warren Ellis,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lightning Bolt,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sonic Youth,
Heaven 17,
The Cure,
Dorothy Ashby,
Model 500,
In Retrospect,
The Pretty Things,
New Age Steppers,
The Durutti Column,
Khruangbin,
FM Einheit,
Soul II Soul,
Eric Dolphy,
The Remains,
Blancmange,
Soft Machine,
the Bar-Kays,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Johnny Clarke,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Litter,
48th St. Collective,
Bluetip,
D'Angelo,
Bronski Beat,
The Neon Judgement,
Pere Ubu,
The Busters,
Ronan,
the Association,
The Saints,
The Dirtbombs,
Fatback Band,
Bad Manners,
John Holt,
Robert Görl,
Moby Grape,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lou Christie,
Mr. Review,
Funkadelic,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Bobby Byrd,
John Foxx,
Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope.
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.