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 Spain and from Bologna.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
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 Sunsets and Hearts to the electroclash 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 Crooked Eye. All the underground hits.
All It's A Beautiful Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal 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 theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Doobie Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Danielle Patucci,
Animal Collective,
Piero Umiliani,
Lou Christie,
The Gap Band,
Deakin,
R.M.O.,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Techniques,
Guru Guru,
Franke,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Dorothy Ashby,
Rod Modell,
Bad Manners,
Terry Callier,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Gladiators,
The Happenings,
Sällskapet,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Patti Smith,
Soft Cell,
Donny Hathaway,
X-102,
Graham Central Station,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Motorama,
Marmalade,
Sam Rivers,
Kevin Saunderson,
Joey Negro,
Sonic Youth,
Wings,
Lou Reed,
Yellowson,
The Searchers,
Peter & Gordon,
cv313,
Theoretical Girls,
Stockholm Monsters,
Gregory Isaacs,
Basic Channel,
Maurizio,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Henry Cow,
Scratch Acid,
the Sonics,
The Blackbyrds,
Alison Limerick,
Barry Ungar,
Sight & Sound,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Easy Going,
The Pretty Things,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near.
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.