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 Mauritius and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 spring reverb 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 Black Moon to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Sister Nancy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New York Dolls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Subhumans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythm & Sound,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
David McCallum,
Drive Like Jehu,
Soft Cell,
Funkadelic,
Whodini,
Sound Behaviour,
Thompson Twins,
Ponytail,
Kayak,
The United States of America,
Fear,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Technova,
John Cale,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Buzzcocks,
The Invisible,
Max Romeo,
Nico,
Agent Orange,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Matthew Halsall,
Porter Ricks,
Bobby Byrd,
The Stooges,
The Offenders,
Fluxion,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Parry Music,
Animal Collective,
Royal Trux,
Gichy Dan,
Traffic Nightmare,
the Soft Cell,
PIL,
Roy Ayers,
Simply Red,
The Shadows of Knight,
Harry Pussy,
Black Flag,
Hasil Adkins,
The Slits,
Depeche Mode,
The Smiths,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Newcleus,
U.S. Maple,
Rakim,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Johnny Clarke,
Al Stewart,
The Associates,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Cure,
The Searchers,
The Sonics,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.