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 Lithuania and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Dorothy Ashby to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Fad Gadget. All the underground hits.
All X-Ray Spex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeru the Damaja record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Von Mondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crispy Ambulance,
The Electric Prunes,
Television,
Interpol,
Fela Kuti,
Outsiders,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Seeds,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
the Sonics,
Pagans,
Peter & Gordon,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
T.S.O.L.,
Unrelated Segments,
Animal Collective,
Qualms,
Sonic Youth,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Quando Quango,
Brick,
Ossler,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
the Normal,
The Gories,
Jeff Lynne,
Judy Mowatt,
Technova,
Warren Ellis,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Grass Roots,
Prince Buster,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Joe Finger,
Mad Mike,
The Smiths,
JFA,
Absolute Body Control,
Johnny Clarke,
Stiv Bators,
The Gun Club,
Boredoms,
Big Daddy Kane,
Anakelly,
Fear,
Circle Jerks,
Josef K,
Robert Hood,
One Last Wish,
Motorama,
Juan Atkins,
Gong,
Marshall Jefferson,
Symarip,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gichy Dan,
Deepchord,
Brass Construction,
Von Mondo,
Joensuu 1685,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.