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 Vanuatu and from Halifax.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Madrid.
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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 AZ to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Gap Band. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül II tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donald Byrd record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cameo,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Pretty Things,
Fat Boys,
John Holt,
Agent Orange,
Aaron Thompson,
Anthony Braxton,
Bob Dylan,
Television Personalities,
Basic Channel,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Smiths,
MDC,
The Invisible,
Dead Boys,
Joy Division,
Yaz,
Archie Shepp,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sugar Minott,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Amazonics,
Index,
ABBA,
Magma,
48th St. Collective,
Gregory Isaacs,
Scrapy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Marvin Gaye,
Franke,
Kevin Saunderson,
Moby Grape,
Main Source,
Erasure,
The Cure,
Echospace,
The Fall,
The Knickerbockers,
Delta 5,
the Human League,
Pere Ubu,
L. Decosne,
Khruangbin,
Ossler,
The Detroit Cobras,
Rufus Thomas,
Aswad,
Maurizio,
June Days,
Pagans,
Peter & Gordon,
Black Moon,
Nick Fraelich,
EPMD,
Animal Collective,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Aloha Tigers,
Royal Trux,
Gang Starr,
The Victims,
Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks.
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.