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 Uzbekistan and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Iggy Pop to the rock 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 Aural Exciters. All the underground hits.
All Hashim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Tremeloes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jacob Miller record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
Gang Green,
Trumans Water,
Sound Behaviour,
Darondo,
Siglo XX,
Lalo Schifrin,
Letta Mbulu,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Scan 7,
FM Einheit,
Marine Girls,
Davy DMX,
Infiniti,
Eric Copeland,
The Evens,
John Foxx,
Altered Images,
Howard Jones,
Roxette,
Visage,
Hot Snakes,
Leonard Cohen,
Lungfish,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Camberwell Now,
The Beau Brummels,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Jacob Miller,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Young Rascals,
Connie Case,
Minny Pops,
The Searchers,
Index,
This Heat,
Chris Corsano,
Nick Fraelich,
Lightning Bolt,
Gabor Szabo,
Alphaville,
Circle Jerks,
Brick,
Lower 48,
Newcleus,
K-Klass,
Livin' Joy,
Barrington Levy,
Simply Red,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Quadrant,
The Gun Club,
Rufus Thomas,
Inner City,
Minor Threat,
Brand Nubian,
Nation of Ulysses,
Black Flag,
Crash Course in Science,
Wire,
Arab on Radar,
Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu.
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.