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 Greece and from Columbus.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Woodstock.
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 sitar 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 JFA to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All The Pop Group tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris & Cosey record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gerry Rafferty record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Offenders,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
John Coltrane,
The Standells,
Television,
The Mojo Men,
Wings,
Average White Band,
Mars,
cv313,
Neil Young,
Jesper Dahlback,
John Foxx,
Sam Rivers,
Bobby Byrd,
Visage,
U.S. Maple,
Eric Dolphy,
Grauzone,
Motorama,
T.S.O.L.,
Mark Hollis,
Reagan Youth,
a-ha,
Freddie Wadling,
Arab on Radar,
A Certain Ratio,
Boredoms,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
LL Cool J,
The Grass Roots,
The Dirtbombs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Durutti Column,
The Gories,
Vladislav Delay,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Saccharine Trust,
The New Christs,
Funky Four + One,
Joe Smooth,
Yusef Lateef,
Connie Case,
The Count Five,
Piero Umiliani,
ABBA,
Tropical Tobacco,
Dawn Penn,
Pharoah Sanders,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Selecter,
F. McDonald,
Quadrant,
Erykah Badu,
Maleditus Sound,
New Age Steppers,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Brass Construction, Brass Construction, Brass Construction, Brass Construction.
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.