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 Philippines and from Hong Kong.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Bizarre Inc. to the techno 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 Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All John Lydon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Procol Harum record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Skatalites,
Ronan,
Gichy Dan,
Sandy B,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Stetsasonic,
Lalann,
Gang Starr,
Minutemen,
Sixth Finger,
The Knickerbockers,
the Human League,
Mission of Burma,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Q65,
John Foxx,
Magma,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Marmalade,
The Raincoats,
Don Cherry,
The Associates,
Tropical Tobacco,
Prince Buster,
The Gun Club,
Popol Vuh,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Busters,
Neu!,
The Slackers,
Bobby Womack,
The Flesh Eaters,
China Crisis,
In Retrospect,
The Alarm Clocks,
Soul Sonic Force,
8 Eyed Spy,
PIL,
Camouflage,
Brick,
Barrington Levy,
Jacques Brel,
John Lydon,
Jandek,
Black Sheep,
Tres Demented,
Cymande,
Alphaville,
Wally Richardson,
Scratch Acid,
Lou Reed,
Vladislav Delay,
Reagan Youth,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
48th St. Collective,
Maurizio,
Sonic Youth,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.