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 Chad and from Lille.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Boogie Down Productions to the techno 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 Wolf Eyes. All the underground hits.
All Robert Görl tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Circle Jerks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sugar Minott record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Blake Baxter,
Pussy Galore,
Y Pants,
Kevin Saunderson,
Nick Fraelich,
Blossom Toes,
Theoretical Girls,
Buzzcocks,
John Holt,
The Walker Brothers,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Last Poets,
Peter & Gordon,
Skaos,
The Sound,
Zero Boys,
Prince Buster,
The Buckinghams,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Stiv Bators,
Dorothy Ashby,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Stooges,
The Beau Brummels,
Sun Ra,
the Bar-Kays,
Glambeats Corp.,
Young Marble Giants,
Hardrive,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Pierre Henry,
Morten Harket,
Agitation Free,
The Cowsills,
Funkadelic,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Aloha Tigers,
Dead Boys,
Ultra Naté,
Guru Guru,
Black Pus,
Chris & Cosey,
Gil Scott Heron,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Byron Stingily,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Bronski Beat,
Delon & Dalcan,
Television,
Bobby Sherman,
Hashim,
Drexciya,
Flamin' Groovies,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ultravox,
Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance.
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.