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 Fiji and from Jakarta.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Neu! to the funk 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 the Association. All the underground hits.
All Red Lorry Yellow Lorry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sarah Menescal 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Con Funk Shun record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Lower 48,
The Vogues,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Malaria!,
Sound Behaviour,
Oneida,
Kas Product,
Pere Ubu,
Jerry's Kids,
kango's stein massive,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Gap Band,
Section 25,
Jimmy McGriff,
AZ,
Soft Cell,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bobby Byrd,
Reuben Wilson,
Prince Buster,
Ice-T,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Index,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Smoke,
48th St. Collective,
The Leaves,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Fluxion,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Newcleus,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Ultravox,
F. McDonald,
Lalo Schifrin,
Bill Wells,
the Swans,
Reagan Youth,
Tim Buckley,
Crispy Ambulance,
Flipper,
Con Funk Shun,
The Velvet Underground,
June Days,
Clear Light,
Oblivians,
Theoretical Girls,
the Sonics,
Lindisfarne,
Neu!,
D'Angelo,
Interpol,
Royal Trux,
Camberwell Now,
Leonard Cohen,
The Electric Prunes,
The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men.
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.