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 Poland and from Accra.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Zero Boys to the punk 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 Tears for Fears. All the underground hits.
All Don Cherry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Surgeon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alphaville record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terry Callier,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Eric Dolphy,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Martian,
Au Pairs,
Joe Smooth,
Tom Boy,
Loose Ends,
Fugazi,
Lalo Schifrin,
Howard Jones,
Isaac Hayes,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Television,
Flash Fearless,
Jimmy McGriff,
Kurtis Blow,
The Standells,
the Association,
Theoretical Girls,
Yaz,
Technova,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Fuzztones,
Rosa Yemen,
OOIOO,
Main Source,
The Sonics,
Maleditus Sound,
The New Christs,
T. Rex,
kango's stein massive,
Soul Sonic Force,
AZ,
The Remains,
Black Moon,
Sugar Minott,
Aural Exciters,
Youth Brigade,
June Days,
Josef K,
The Kinks,
Harmonia,
The Cramps,
Marine Girls,
Suicide,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Cal Tjader,
Scan 7,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Buckinghams,
The Birthday Party,
Slick Rick,
The Zeros,
Rod Modell,
Sandy B,
Sun City Girls,
Von Mondo,
Dave Gahan,
Danielle Patucci,
Bad Manners,
D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo.
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.