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 Mongolia and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Lagos.
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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Johnny Clarke to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Tom Boy. All the underground hits.
All The Stooges tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Lydon 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warsaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
Soulsonic Force,
Joe Finger,
Aloha Tigers,
Technova,
Rekid,
Eli Mardock,
Altered Images,
Los Fastidios,
The Tremeloes,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Wire,
Jimmy McGriff,
Ronan,
Banda Bassotti,
Porter Ricks,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Barry Ungar,
Rhythm & Sound,
Crispy Ambulance,
Ituana,
Gerry Rafferty,
Tears for Fears,
DJ Style,
The Knickerbockers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Peter & Gordon,
Dawn Penn,
The Star Department,
Glambeats Corp.,
Alphaville,
Yellowson,
Interpol,
Darondo,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Goldenarms,
The Modern Lovers,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Icehouse,
the Slits,
Jandek,
Marine Girls,
Radio Birdman,
The Dave Clark Five,
Slave,
Gang of Four,
Black Moon,
Cymande,
Wasted Youth,
Mark Hollis,
The Walker Brothers,
The Buckinghams,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
John Foxx,
Bush Tetras,
James White and The Blacks,
MC5,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Detroit Cobras,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins.
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.