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 Brazil and from Mumbai.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Can to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 X-102. All the underground hits.
All Quantec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every B.T. Express 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Fania All-Stars,
Bobby Sherman,
Gil Scott Heron,
Rotary Connection,
The Zeros,
Derrick Morgan,
China Crisis,
Rekid,
Dark Day,
Pet Shop Boys,
Pylon,
a-ha,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Nirvana,
Jacques Brel,
Colin Newman,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Make Up,
Oneida,
Sex Pistols,
Echospace,
Lakeside,
Stetsasonic,
Bob Dylan,
Lightning Bolt,
Yellowson,
Vladislav Delay,
The Moody Blues,
Agent Orange,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Fall,
The Index,
Moss Icon,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Aaron Thompson,
Todd Terry,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Popol Vuh,
Iggy Pop,
This Heat,
Kenny Larkin,
Essential Logic,
Das Ding,
Royal Trux,
Lee Hazlewood,
ABBA,
Black Moon,
Steve Hackett,
Livin' Joy,
Index,
Cymande,
The Leaves,
Ice-T,
The Birthday Party,
Jeru the Damaja,
Marine Girls,
The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges.
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.