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 Finland and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 Seoul and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Motorama to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Howard Jones. All the underground hits.
All The Buckinghams tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Teasers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Misunderstood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Womack,
Q65,
Lightning Bolt,
Main Source,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Nico,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Motions,
Aaron Thompson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ultravox,
Siglo XX,
Unwound,
LL Cool J,
Metal Thangz,
Unrelated Segments,
London Community Gospel Choir,
In Retrospect,
Marine Girls,
James White and The Blacks,
MDC,
John Foxx,
Roxy Music,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Black Sheep,
Rufus Thomas,
T. Rex,
Masters at Work,
Prince Buster,
Tommy Roe,
Lebanon Hanover,
Alison Limerick,
Nils Olav,
New York Dolls,
David Bowie,
Aloha Tigers,
the Human League,
Bill Wells,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Pere Ubu,
Bronski Beat,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Don Cherry,
Darondo,
Saccharine Trust,
Vladislav Delay,
Los Fastidios,
Bob Dylan,
Pantaleimon,
Underground Resistance,
Tim Buckley,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Scott Walker,
Deakin,
Smog,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Beau Brummels,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Modern Lovers,
U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple.
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.