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 Algeria and from Copenhagen.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Zeros to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Davy DMX. All the underground hits.
All Junior Murvin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Henry Cow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moss Icon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brand Nubian,
Mars,
D'Angelo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Joyce Sims,
John Foxx,
Jandek,
Saccharine Trust,
Aaron Thompson,
The Invisible,
Amon Düül II,
The Busters,
Rufus Thomas,
Bobbi Humphrey,
the Soft Cell,
The Knickerbockers,
Kas Product,
Zero Boys,
Sugar Minott,
The Birthday Party,
Television,
Arcadia,
Oneida,
Morten Harket,
Circle Jerks,
Blossom Toes,
Erasure,
Fluxion,
Rotary Connection,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
10cc,
The Black Dice,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Cybotron,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Letta Mbulu,
Reagan Youth,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Piero Umiliani,
Con Funk Shun,
The Divine Comedy,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Count Five,
the Association,
The Cure,
Half Japanese,
Silicon Teens,
Quantec,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sarah Menescal,
Agent Orange,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Durutti Column,
Nas,
Pantaleimon,
Kayak,
the Germs,
Susan Cadogan,
Brick,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.