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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Shanghai.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Mad Mike. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Names record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Monks,
Terry Callier,
Grauzone,
Ornette Coleman,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Dead C,
Crash Course in Science,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Newcleus,
James White and The Blacks,
Interpol,
Eurythmics,
Barclay James Harvest,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Aswad,
Matthew Halsall,
Unwound,
Tres Demented,
Kas Product,
The Names,
Sugar Minott,
the Germs,
Babytalk,
Kayak,
Quando Quango,
Country Teasers,
Deepchord,
Ludus,
Skriet,
Eric Dolphy,
Grandmaster Flash,
Agent Orange,
Outsiders,
Nation of Ulysses,
Main Source,
Subhumans,
The Fall,
The Seeds,
The Selecter,
Slick Rick,
Maurizio,
David McCallum,
Intrusion,
The Victims,
Duran Duran,
Nik Kershaw,
The Fuzztones,
Rufus Thomas,
Archie Shepp,
Matthew Bourne,
Roxy Music,
Bill Near,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Ponytail,
Brothers Johnson,
Altered Images,
Goldenarms,
Echospace,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.