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 Kiribati and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 Holger Czukay 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 Richard Hell and the Voidoids to the rock 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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All Ludus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stiv Bators record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brass Construction record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thompson Twins,
Zapp,
DJ Sneak,
Big Daddy Kane,
Avey Tare,
Loose Ends,
Delta 5,
Animal Collective,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Matthew Halsall,
Kas Product,
Dual Sessions,
Negative Approach,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Camberwell Now,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Bluetip,
Little Man,
Judy Mowatt,
Letta Mbulu,
OOIOO,
Visage,
Ultra Naté,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ronan,
the Swans,
E-Dancer,
Tim Buckley,
Shuggie Otis,
The Red Krayola,
Angry Samoans,
Pulsallama,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Index,
Tubeway Army,
Desert Stars,
Intrusion,
Spoonie Gee,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Harmonia,
Bill Wells,
Blossom Toes,
10cc,
Marc Almond,
Monks,
Technova,
Joe Smooth,
Sound Behaviour,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Scrapy,
T. Rex,
The Doors,
The Fortunes,
Country Teasers,
Slick Rick,
The Detroit Cobras,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Kenny Larkin,
These Immortal Souls,
The J.B.'s,
Mo-Dettes,
The Star Department, The Star Department, The Star Department, The Star Department.
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.