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 St Lucia and from Lagos.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Bizarre Inc. to the funk 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 Agitation Free. All the underground hits.
All David McCallum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a These Immortal Souls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Finger,
Amazonics,
Radiopuhelimet,
Liliput,
The Evens,
Johnny Clarke,
Stiv Bators,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Mighty Diamonds,
This Heat,
Grey Daturas,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Alphaville,
Funky Four + One,
Model 500,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Arcadia,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Connie Case,
Tubeway Army,
Moebius,
Goldenarms,
Joey Negro,
Sarah Menescal,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Eric Copeland,
The Mojo Men,
Lyres,
Hardrive,
Livin' Joy,
U.S. Maple,
Roxette,
Andrew Hill,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Erykah Badu,
Kevin Saunderson,
Roger Hodgson,
Nik Kershaw,
La Düsseldorf,
Girls At Our Best!,
Quantec,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Danielle Patucci,
Minny Pops,
FM Einheit,
Barrington Levy,
Reagan Youth,
Deakin,
Crime,
Scratch Acid,
Kas Product,
the Germs,
Audionom,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Durutti Column,
Pere Ubu,
Jacob Miller,
Marshall Jefferson,
48th St. Collective,
The Gun Club,
The Grass Roots,
Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell.
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.