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 Marshall Islands and from Bremen.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 linndrum 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Isaac Hayes. All the underground hits.
All EPMD tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Porter Ricks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Dolphy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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 Bar-Kays,
Cluster,
Rakim,
Tropical Tobacco,
Clear Light,
Reuben Wilson,
The Kinks,
Los Fastidios,
Marc Almond,
Television Personalities,
The Star Department,
The Knickerbockers,
Anthony Braxton,
Tim Buckley,
Fugazi,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Nick Fraelich,
Alphaville,
The Blackbyrds,
Eric Dolphy,
Mars,
Eric Copeland,
Charles Mingus,
The Blues Magoos,
Stiv Bators,
Oneida,
Wings,
D'Angelo,
In Retrospect,
Black Flag,
Intrusion,
June of 44,
Deadbeat,
Camberwell Now,
Lucky Dragons,
Bluetip,
Swans,
Suicide,
Half Japanese,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Depeche Mode,
The Motions,
Aaron Thompson,
Minutemen,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ken Boothe,
Jimmy McGriff,
Lyres,
The Misunderstood,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
David McCallum,
Pantaleimon,
The Remains,
Bauhaus,
The Flesh Eaters,
Mo-Dettes,
Surgeon,
Joy Division,
Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman.
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.