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 Andorra and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Nico to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 John Foxx. All the underground hits.
All Kaleidoscope tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Das Ding record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Johnny Osbourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rufus Thomas,
Angry Samoans,
Suicide,
Roger Hodgson,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Zeros,
New Order,
Das Ding,
Neil Young,
Barclay James Harvest,
Derrick Morgan,
Eyeless In Gaza,
E-Dancer,
Mo-Dettes,
The Names,
The Stooges,
The Fugs,
Rosa Yemen,
kango's stein massive,
The Fire Engines,
Ronan,
Faust,
Depeche Mode,
The Saints,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Bobby Byrd,
Liliput,
The Real Kids,
AZ,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Crispy Ambulance,
X-101,
Delta 5,
Fat Boys,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lightning Bolt,
Avey Tare,
Alphaville,
Barbara Tucker,
UT,
The Dave Clark Five,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Fad Gadget,
The Music Machine,
Joensuu 1685,
Man Parrish,
Au Pairs,
John Coltrane,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Mars,
Visage,
Main Source,
Howard Jones,
Swans,
Eric Dolphy,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Amazonics,
The Doobie Brothers,
Thompson Twins,
Japan,
the Swans,
Newcleus,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.