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 Solomon Islands and from Woodstock.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Alphaville to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Cosmic Jokers. All the underground hits.
All Gang Green tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Christie record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
E-Dancer,
Tommy Roe,
Public Enemy,
Adolescents,
Aswad,
Dorothy Ashby,
Blossom Toes,
Siglo XX,
Accadde A,
Country Teasers,
Guru Guru,
ABBA,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Yusef Lateef,
Mission of Burma,
Bill Wells,
Vladislav Delay,
Joe Finger,
Khruangbin,
The Happenings,
Angry Samoans,
Charles Mingus,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
H. Thieme,
Janne Schatter,
Jeff Mills,
Rekid,
Delta 5,
Moss Icon,
Kerri Chandler,
Deadbeat,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Barracudas,
The Fall,
Junior Murvin,
James White and The Blacks,
The Modern Lovers,
Big Daddy Kane,
Mr. Review,
Livin' Joy,
Stiv Bators,
Nation of Ulysses,
Tim Buckley,
Depeche Mode,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
This Heat,
Visage,
Crime,
Cluster,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Funkadelic,
Gabor Szabo,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Donny Hathaway,
Albert Ayler,
Arthur Verocai,
Kerrie Biddell,
Connie Case,
Buzzcocks,
Kas Product,
Ronan,
Wally Richardson,
Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano.
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.