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 Micronesia and from Madrid.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Big Daddy Kane to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 R.M.O.. All the underground hits.
All Gastr Del Sol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reuben Wilson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Magazine,
New Order,
James White and The Blacks,
Circle Jerks,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gastr Del Sol,
Dennis Brown,
Peter & Gordon,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Warren Ellis,
Eric Dolphy,
Bauhaus,
Joe Smooth,
kango's stein massive,
Sam Rivers,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Absolute Body Control,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Joe Finger,
Suicide,
Stereo Dub,
Los Fastidios,
Mad Mike,
Thompson Twins,
Arcadia,
Pussy Galore,
Robert Görl,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Thee Headcoats,
Jacques Brel,
Soulsonic Force,
Nation of Ulysses,
Kas Product,
The Gories,
Organ,
Das Ding,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Roger Hodgson,
Marmalade,
Adolescents,
Lalo Schifrin,
Depeche Mode,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Mojo Men,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Q65,
Derrick Morgan,
Suburban Knight,
Harpers Bizarre,
Quadrant,
The Dave Clark Five,
Gerry Rafferty,
In Retrospect,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Star Department,
Neu!,
The Fugs,
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.