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 Syria and from Shanghai.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Offenders to the techno 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 Yazoo. All the underground hits.
All the Bar-Kays tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crash Course in Science record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pylon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zapp,
Desert Stars,
Rod Modell,
Harmonia,
The Fire Engines,
Fad Gadget,
The American Breed,
Kenny Larkin,
Cal Tjader,
Aaron Thompson,
Leonard Cohen,
The Star Department,
Second Layer,
Blancmange,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Yaz,
The New Christs,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sun Ra,
Erasure,
Janne Schatter,
Lightning Bolt,
The Remains,
Wolf Eyes,
PIL,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Freddie Wadling,
The Grass Roots,
Ice-T,
Minny Pops,
Camouflage,
Henry Cow,
Swell Maps,
Boredoms,
Glenn Branca,
The Pop Group,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
10cc,
The Angels of Light,
Roger Hodgson,
Rhythm & Sound,
Stetsasonic,
Grauzone,
Tears for Fears,
Todd Rundgren,
Peter & Gordon,
Mars,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Funky Four + One,
Neil Young,
Gang Green,
The Velvet Underground,
Grey Daturas,
Pussy Galore,
Mad Mike,
Davy DMX,
LL Cool J,
Dorothy Ashby,
In Retrospect,
Section 25, Section 25, Section 25, Section 25.
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.