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 Suriname and from London.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 harpsichord 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 Motorama 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All The Pop Group tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stockholm Monsters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June of 44 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Adolescents,
X-102,
Stetsasonic,
Los Fastidios,
Quadrant,
Outsiders,
Pussy Galore,
Von Mondo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fela Kuti,
Sarah Menescal,
Trumans Water,
Terry Callier,
Soft Machine,
Marshall Jefferson,
Parry Music,
Rapeman,
Lower 48,
Brick,
Kevin Saunderson,
Guru Guru,
L. Decosne,
Wolf Eyes,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
kango's stein massive,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Barbara Tucker,
Black Sheep,
Stiv Bators,
Livin' Joy,
Ultimate Spinach,
A Certain Ratio,
Ituana,
Supertramp,
T. Rex,
Electric Prunes,
Rites of Spring,
Buzzcocks,
The Leaves,
Ohio Players,
Roxy Music,
Be Bop Deluxe,
In Retrospect,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Joe Smooth,
Crash Course in Science,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Litter,
Negative Approach,
The Names,
Newcleus,
the Association,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Gladiators,
Bob Dylan,
Urselle,
Gang of Four,
The Searchers,
Roger Hodgson,
The Cowsills,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish.
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.