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 Montenegro and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Lebanon Hanover to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Mr. Review. All the underground hits.
All The Young Rascals tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Modern Lovers 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gerry Rafferty,
Joy Division,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Barbara Tucker,
Gang Gang Dance,
Yusef Lateef,
Peter & Gordon,
World's Most,
Archie Shepp,
John Foxx,
Motorama,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
MDC,
Animal Collective,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Index,
In Retrospect,
Roxette,
Loose Ends,
Easy Going,
FM Einheit,
The Black Dice,
Juan Atkins,
Technova,
Scratch Acid,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
the Fania All-Stars,
Bluetip,
Hot Snakes,
Rhythm & Sound,
Maurizio,
Reuben Wilson,
Derrick Morgan,
Agitation Free,
Sonic Youth,
Eric Copeland,
Boogie Down Productions,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lyres,
Sugar Minott,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Fat Boys,
Organ,
Ash Ra Tempel,
James White and The Blacks,
The Seeds,
Mad Mike,
The Smiths,
Aswad,
The Smoke,
Kevin Saunderson,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
K-Klass,
Alton Ellis,
Fela Kuti,
Tears for Fears,
Colin Newman,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Crispy Ambulance,
Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth.
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.