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 Spain and from Columbus.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and London.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the guitar 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 Rapeman to the techno 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 Marmalade. All the underground hits.
All Black Moon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lonnie Liston Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacques Brel,
Fat Boys,
Scrapy,
Skarface,
Easy Going,
The Smoke,
The Standells,
Hashim,
Jandek,
Black Bananas,
the Slits,
Gang of Four,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ossler,
The New Christs,
Morten Harket,
The Birthday Party,
kango's stein massive,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Fire Engines,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Jacob Miller,
Pantytec,
Kerri Chandler,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Whodini,
Oneida,
Godley & Creme,
Crooked Eye,
Das Ding,
the Fania All-Stars,
James White and The Blacks,
Dark Day,
Dave Gahan,
Robert Görl,
Television,
Spandau Ballet,
Make Up,
Girls At Our Best!,
Con Funk Shun,
Supertramp,
Chrome,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Mummies,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
David McCallum,
The Offenders,
The Grass Roots,
Barrington Levy,
Bobby Byrd,
The United States of America,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Chris Corsano,
Soft Machine,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Gang Green,
The Vogues,
Grandmaster Flash,
Kas Product,
Blossom Toes,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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.