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 Luxembourg and from Jakarta.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Black Flag to the techno 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 Sun City Girls. All the underground hits.
All Juan Atkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every These Immortal Souls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gladiators 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?
Chris & Cosey,
The Invisible,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Velvet Underground,
Delta 5,
Johnny Osbourne,
Zapp,
Avey Tare,
Jimmy McGriff,
Hashim,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ohio Players,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Moody Blues,
Boogie Down Productions,
Mary Jane Girls,
Mark Hollis,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Trojans,
Lower 48,
Model 500,
The Fortunes,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Youth Brigade,
Public Enemy,
The Durutti Column,
the Slits,
The Gladiators,
Lou Christie,
The Zeros,
The Music Machine,
Marshall Jefferson,
Terrestrial Tones,
OOIOO,
The Dirtbombs,
The Sonics,
The Fire Engines,
Yazoo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Move,
Cymande,
Q65,
Gong,
Pere Ubu,
Jacob Miller,
The Grass Roots,
Soft Cell,
Scientists,
Laurel Aitken,
Animal Collective,
Depeche Mode,
Technova,
Tres Demented,
Bauhaus,
The Count Five,
Eric Dolphy,
Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen.
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.