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 China and from Bremen.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar 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 Modern Lovers to the jazz 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 Lakeside. All the underground hits.
All Circle Jerks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stereo Dub record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Talk Talk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Smog,
Jerry Gold Smith,
the Normal,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Scott Walker,
The Smiths,
10cc,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Black Flag,
The Human League,
Al Stewart,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gastr Del Sol,
Idris Muhammad,
Oneida,
Eli Mardock,
Eden Ahbez,
Magma,
Audionom,
Easy Going,
The Young Rascals,
Archie Shepp,
The Vogues,
World's Most,
Circle Jerks,
Arab on Radar,
Von Mondo,
Crime,
Zapp,
Jesper Dahlback,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Todd Terry,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Grass Roots,
Black Bananas,
Franke,
Oblivians,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Moody Blues,
Severed Heads,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Happenings,
Don Cherry,
Interpol,
Amazonics,
Joy Division,
Boogie Down Productions,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Television Personalities,
Mark Hollis,
The Blues Magoos,
Lalo Schifrin,
Sonic Youth,
The Skatalites,
X-Ray Spex,
Half Japanese,
Althea and Donna,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Barracudas,
The Trojans,
Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One.
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.