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 Uganda and from Manchester.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Kool G Rap & DJ Polo to the electroclash 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 Tom Boy. All the underground hits.
All Maurizio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drexciya record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a James White and The Blacks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Monochrome Set,
The Cramps,
The Evens,
The Gories,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
UT,
Joe Smooth,
Porter Ricks,
ABC,
8 Eyed Spy,
Main Source,
Livin' Joy,
David McCallum,
Chris Corsano,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Talk Talk,
Anthony Braxton,
The Martian,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Man Eating Sloth,
Dawn Penn,
Banda Bassotti,
The Buckinghams,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Harry Pussy,
Kas Product,
One Last Wish,
Unwound,
Gregory Isaacs,
Derrick Morgan,
Black Flag,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Nils Olav,
The Gun Club,
the Slits,
The Stooges,
Supertramp,
Camouflage,
Public Image Ltd.,
Jandek,
Soul Sonic Force,
Rapeman,
Ten City,
The Wake,
Ken Boothe,
Eli Mardock,
Neil Young,
The Smiths,
T.S.O.L.,
Lyres,
Spoonie Gee,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gil Scott Heron,
Delta 5,
Leonard Cohen,
Ossler,
The Music Machine,
Pagans,
The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers.
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.