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 Suriname and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Slits 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 Barbara Tucker. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joy Division 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Normal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Intrusion,
Soul II Soul,
FM Einheit,
Gong,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Hardrive,
Brass Construction,
Scratch Acid,
Peter and Kerry,
Suburban Knight,
Johnny Clarke,
Carl Craig,
Steve Hackett,
Flash Fearless,
Black Moon,
Talk Talk,
The Golliwogs,
Kenny Larkin,
cv313,
Freddie Wadling,
Sonny Sharrock,
Harpers Bizarre,
Frankie Knuckles,
Iggy Pop,
James White and The Blacks,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Cameo,
Index,
Ronan,
Surgeon,
Fela Kuti,
Rites of Spring,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Japan,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The J.B.'s,
The Raincoats,
Yellowson,
Bobby Sherman,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Delta 5,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Liliput,
Chris Corsano,
a-ha,
Visage,
Stiv Bators,
Agitation Free,
Man Eating Sloth,
Ornette Coleman,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Searchers,
Reuben Wilson,
John Lydon,
One Last Wish,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sight & Sound,
Albert Ayler,
Robert Wyatt,
Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust.
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.