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 France and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Mexico City.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Popol Vuh to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Grandmaster Flash. All the underground hits.
All Outsiders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gun Club 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eyeless In Gaza record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reuben Wilson,
Stereo Dub,
Aural Exciters,
Can,
Dorothy Ashby,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Pantytec,
Echospace,
Wings,
The Sound,
Skriet,
Anthony Braxton,
Zero Boys,
Excepter,
Average White Band,
Sparks,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Monolake,
The United States of America,
Big Daddy Kane,
Roy Ayers,
Ponytail,
Crispy Ambulance,
Marshall Jefferson,
Barbara Tucker,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Aloha Tigers,
Nik Kershaw,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Cal Tjader,
Saccharine Trust,
Scrapy,
Kenny Larkin,
K-Klass,
Mandrill,
The Alarm Clocks,
Vainqueur,
Rotary Connection,
Gong,
The Blackbyrds,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Rakim,
Faust,
Pussy Galore,
a-ha,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Iggy Pop,
Silicon Teens,
Joyce Sims,
Black Sheep,
Neu!,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Trojans,
Absolute Body Control,
Whodini,
Roxy Music,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Quadrant,
the Human League,
Radio Birdman,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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.