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 Malaysia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 linndrum 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 Warsaw to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Ultramagnetic MC's. All the underground hits.
All Livin' Joy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Absolute Body Control record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Von Mondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agitation Free,
Junior Murvin,
Television Personalities,
The Sonics,
James White and The Blacks,
The Toasters,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Dorothy Ashby,
Visage,
Albert Ayler,
Inner City,
The Grass Roots,
Nick Fraelich,
Tubeway Army,
Joy Division,
Glenn Branca,
Chris & Cosey,
Cameo,
Barbara Tucker,
The Moody Blues,
Wolf Eyes,
The Velvet Underground,
Robert Hood,
Tears for Fears,
The Sound,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Country Teasers,
Don Cherry,
Hashim,
MC5,
New Order,
Desert Stars,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Young Rascals,
Rhythm & Sound,
Danielle Patucci,
Magma,
Monolake,
Can,
Stetsasonic,
Technova,
The Pop Group,
Patti Smith,
Jimmy McGriff,
Marmalade,
Matthew Halsall,
Grandmaster Flash,
Iggy Pop,
Sällskapet,
Chris Corsano,
Minor Threat,
World's Most,
Popol Vuh,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Barracudas,
Michelle Simonal,
Scan 7,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Theoretical Girls,
The Skatalites,
Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu.
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.