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 Dominica and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Pole to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Trumans Water tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Durutti Column 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eli Mardock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kurtis Blow,
Maurizio,
Basic Channel,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Detroit Cobras,
Yazoo,
F. McDonald,
Tears for Fears,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Joyce Sims,
Slick Rick,
Monks,
Junior Murvin,
The Black Dice,
Sugar Minott,
Von Mondo,
John Coltrane,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Hasil Adkins,
10cc,
Swans,
Smog,
Essential Logic,
Roy Ayers,
The Gories,
Faust,
DJ Style,
Excepter,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Kinks,
ABC,
The Searchers,
Man Eating Sloth,
Bobby Sherman,
James White and The Blacks,
Joey Negro,
Scrapy,
Animal Collective,
Pylon,
Juan Atkins,
Gabor Szabo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Flipper,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Flash Fearless,
PIL,
Lalann,
Rekid,
Eddi Front,
Matthew Halsall,
Ralphi Rosario,
Unwound,
Kenny Larkin,
Ice-T,
Sarah Menescal,
Radiopuhelimet,
Brand Nubian,
Y Pants,
Cameo,
Main Source, Main Source, Main Source, Main Source.
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.