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 Syria and from Lille.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the sitar 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 Camberwell Now to the disco 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 Seeds. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Happenings 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
X-Ray Spex,
Crash Course in Science,
ABC,
Hashim,
Niagra,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Audionom,
China Crisis,
Morten Harket,
New York Dolls,
Pet Shop Boys,
Scott Walker,
Panda Bear,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Aswad,
The Slackers,
Television,
Outsiders,
Mark Hollis,
Wasted Youth,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Oneida,
Mary Jane Girls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Parry Music,
Radiohead,
The Fuzztones,
The Monks,
Maleditus Sound,
The Kinks,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Litter,
Jandek,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Blancmange,
Gregory Isaacs,
Darondo,
Lou Christie,
Minor Threat,
Todd Rundgren,
Funkadelic,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Japan,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Judy Mowatt,
Deepchord,
Bush Tetras,
Flash Fearless,
The J.B.'s,
Kerri Chandler,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Birthday Party,
Ronan,
Yazoo,
June of 44,
Peter and Kerry,
Ossler,
Davy DMX,
Ronnie Foster,
Jesper Dahlback,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Evens, The Evens, The Evens, The Evens.
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.