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 Turkmenistan and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Leaves to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Cabaret Voltaire. All the underground hits.
All Absolute Body Control tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Move 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barclay James Harvest record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Residents,
X-101,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Bush Tetras,
Chris Corsano,
Warren Ellis,
the Swans,
Banda Bassotti,
Joyce Sims,
The Sonics,
Erykah Badu,
The Seeds,
Donald Byrd,
Basic Channel,
John Cale,
The Vogues,
The Fuzztones,
Lightning Bolt,
Bootsy Collins,
The Star Department,
Con Funk Shun,
Aaron Thompson,
Sixth Finger,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Motorama,
Janne Schatter,
Darondo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Slave,
Howard Jones,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Marc Almond,
Rod Modell,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
David Axelrod,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Black Dice,
Wire,
JFA,
Rakim,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Litter,
John Holt,
Yaz,
Rhythm & Sound,
Saccharine Trust,
Marshall Jefferson,
Soft Cell,
Zero Boys,
Fatback Band,
AZ,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Monks,
Kenny Larkin,
10cc,
Bauhaus,
The Names,
Lee Hazlewood,
Model 500,
the Germs,
Kerri Chandler,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.