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 Guatemala and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 snare 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 Toni Rubio to the rock 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 Dawn Penn. All the underground hits.
All DJ Style tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Adolescents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quantec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sister Nancy,
The Motions,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Rotary Connection,
Flamin' Groovies,
Sun Ra,
Eurythmics,
Terry Callier,
ABBA,
Symarip,
Marine Girls,
B.T. Express,
Rosa Yemen,
Ronan,
Scrapy,
Nils Olav,
The Gap Band,
Tropical Tobacco,
Roger Hodgson,
Danielle Patucci,
David Axelrod,
Silicon Teens,
Byron Stingily,
The Remains,
UT,
Barrington Levy,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Lalann,
Loose Ends,
Susan Cadogan,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Harmonia,
Morten Harket,
Traffic Nightmare,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
E-Dancer,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Mission of Burma,
Maleditus Sound,
Saccharine Trust,
Patti Smith,
D'Angelo,
Bizarre Inc.,
Toni Rubio,
Ludus,
The Vogues,
The Golliwogs,
The American Breed,
Yusef Lateef,
Heaven 17,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Tomorrow,
The Alarm Clocks,
Alphaville,
Suicide,
The Durutti Column,
The Index, The Index, The Index, The Index.
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.