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 Iran and from Mexico City.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Cairo.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Star Department. All the underground hits.
All Liaisons Dangereuses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pharoah Sanders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mantronix record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
Clear Light,
The Modern Lovers,
Gong,
Stockholm Monsters,
Scrapy,
Davy DMX,
The Vogues,
Japan,
Blake Baxter,
Infiniti,
The Gap Band,
Nik Kershaw,
Sugar Minott,
Joe Finger,
Marvin Gaye,
Lightning Bolt,
The Durutti Column,
Tim Buckley,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Rakim,
the Human League,
Anakelly,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Remains,
Juan Atkins,
Sex Pistols,
Absolute Body Control,
Dennis Brown,
The Mojo Men,
D'Angelo,
Peter & Gordon,
The Sonics,
Shoche,
Au Pairs,
The Shadows of Knight,
Monolake,
Dark Day,
Hardrive,
Basic Channel,
The Searchers,
The Music Machine,
The Stooges,
One Last Wish,
World's Most,
Vainqueur,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Young Rascals,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sun Ra,
The Victims,
Jeru the Damaja,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Lakeside,
Kerrie Biddell,
Bluetip,
Marcia Griffiths,
Oblivians,
Chris & Cosey,
Howard Jones,
Max Romeo,
Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station.
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.