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 Venezuela and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Blake Baxter. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Names record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moss Icon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Motions,
China Crisis,
Todd Rundgren,
Stiv Bators,
Roy Ayers,
Gong,
The Standells,
Pere Ubu,
Bad Manners,
The Cure,
One Last Wish,
Joe Smooth,
Mary Jane Girls,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Gun Club,
Josef K,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Count Five,
Ice-T,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Golliwogs,
The Monks,
The Velvet Underground,
Anthony Braxton,
Nik Kershaw,
Bootsy Collins,
Terry Callier,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Wolf Eyes,
Mr. Review,
Chris & Cosey,
Amon Düül II,
Albert Ayler,
Outsiders,
Danielle Patucci,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Duran Duran,
This Heat,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Five Americans,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Marshall Jefferson,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Agitation Free,
Gang Starr,
Visage,
Radiohead,
The Fall,
Ultra Naté,
Camberwell Now,
Subhumans,
Nation of Ulysses,
Altered Images,
Neu!,
Derrick May,
Matthew Halsall,
Rufus Thomas,
the Fania All-Stars,
Ronan,
Minnie Riperton,
Nirvana,
Kas Product,
The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites.
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.