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 Bolivia and from Lille.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Victims to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Gang Green. All the underground hits.
All Gabor Szabo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Motorama record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arcadia,
Morten Harket,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sarah Menescal,
Erasure,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Carl Craig,
David McCallum,
Althea and Donna,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Rod Modell,
Gichy Dan,
The New Christs,
K-Klass,
The J.B.'s,
John Foxx,
Metal Thangz,
cv313,
Livin' Joy,
Groovy Waters,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Crispy Ambulance,
Silicon Teens,
The Dirtbombs,
Toni Rubio,
Jesper Dahlback,
Danielle Patucci,
Marvin Gaye,
Roger Hodgson,
Scion,
Banda Bassotti,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Marmalade,
Nick Fraelich,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Yellowson,
Robert Görl,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Marine Girls,
Echospace,
Maurizio,
The Doors,
the Fania All-Stars,
Slave,
The United States of America,
Pulsallama,
Blossom Toes,
The Durutti Column,
Das Ding,
Cluster,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Dead C,
The Zeros,
Country Joe & The Fish,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cecil Taylor,
Fad Gadget,
Rhythm & Sound,
Fugazi,
Aural Exciters,
Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango.
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.