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 Slovakia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Michael McDonald 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 Essential Logic 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 Parry Music. All the underground hits.
All Rosa Yemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Half Japanese 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Marvin Gaye,
Moby Grape,
The Happenings,
The United States of America,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Bad Manners,
Roxy Music,
Agent Orange,
Dave Gahan,
Loose Ends,
Camouflage,
Tubeway Army,
Maurizio,
Motorama,
U.S. Maple,
Brick,
Robert Wyatt,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Bluetip,
Public Enemy,
The Fall,
Alton Ellis,
Sex Pistols,
Kas Product,
The Fortunes,
David McCallum,
Soul Sonic Force,
Bush Tetras,
The Black Dice,
Scott Walker,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Quadrant,
Unwound,
Bobby Womack,
Leonard Cohen,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Pylon,
The Detroit Cobras,
Simply Red,
Freddie Wadling,
Michelle Simonal,
The Beau Brummels,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Grass Roots,
Laurel Aitken,
the Slits,
Wasted Youth,
Television,
Barbara Tucker,
The Smiths,
Bobby Byrd,
Symarip,
Reuben Wilson,
The Techniques,
Marc Almond,
Ultra Naté,
Eli Mardock,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Young Rascals,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
X-101, X-101, X-101, X-101.
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.