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 Botswana and from Milan.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Grandmaster Flash to the dance 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 Ossler. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unwound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rites of Spring,
Kenny Larkin,
10cc,
The Standells,
Pagans,
Altered Images,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Star Department,
Juan Atkins,
Arcadia,
Wings,
Throbbing Gristle,
Alice Coltrane,
Intrusion,
The Slits,
Nation of Ulysses,
David Bowie,
the Bar-Kays,
Flash Fearless,
Todd Rundgren,
Deakin,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Isaac Hayes,
Derrick Morgan,
Sound Behaviour,
The Fall,
Stetsasonic,
DNA,
The Smoke,
The Gories,
Alphaville,
Eve St. Jones,
Tim Buckley,
Ludus,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Detroit Cobras,
Peter & Gordon,
Laurel Aitken,
Television,
Janne Schatter,
Duran Duran,
the Soft Cell,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Rod Modell,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Fela Kuti,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Camberwell Now,
Jandek,
Cal Tjader,
the Association,
Amon Düül II,
Scan 7,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Durutti Column,
Moss Icon,
Flipper,
Easy Going,
Technova,
Absolute Body Control,
Saccharine Trust,
The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group.
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.