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 Turkey and from New York.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Sound Behaviour to the jazz 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 Excepter. All the underground hits.
All Moebius tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ralphi Rosario record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Normal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grauzone,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gang of Four,
Warren Ellis,
Anthony Braxton,
Sarah Menescal,
Ken Boothe,
Q and Not U,
Deadbeat,
London Community Gospel Choir,
kango's stein massive,
Morten Harket,
Kayak,
Outsiders,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Unrelated Segments,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Germs,
Black Bananas,
Cybotron,
Heaven 17,
Mission of Burma,
The Blues Magoos,
T.S.O.L.,
Delta 5,
Bluetip,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Mars,
Rapeman,
Hot Snakes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Tim Buckley,
Idris Muhammad,
Slick Rick,
AZ,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Fortunes,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Chris & Cosey,
Au Pairs,
Ronan,
Absolute Body Control,
Rotary Connection,
The Standells,
Bang On A Can,
Pussy Galore,
The Durutti Column,
Sugar Minott,
Gang Starr,
Roger Hodgson,
Quando Quango,
The Pop Group,
Adolescents,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Sonic Youth,
Section 25,
Procol Harum,
Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins.
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.