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 Cameroon and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 sitar 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 Sixth Finger to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Be Bop Deluxe. All the underground hits.
All Rosa Yemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalo Schifrin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
Johnny Osbourne,
Ken Boothe,
The Cure,
Subhumans,
Radiopuhelimet,
Sound Behaviour,
Deadbeat,
Quando Quango,
The Cowsills,
Kayak,
Whodini,
Camouflage,
Mo-Dettes,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Cluster,
Soul Sonic Force,
Aswad,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Roy Ayers,
Gerry Rafferty,
Curtis Mayfield,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Smiths,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Stockholm Monsters,
Rites of Spring,
Black Pus,
Moby Grape,
Qualms,
Yellowson,
Y Pants,
Thee Headcoats,
the Association,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Dave Clark Five,
Morten Harket,
Cybotron,
Charles Mingus,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
8 Eyed Spy,
LL Cool J,
Joe Smooth,
The Modern Lovers,
Todd Rundgren,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
ABC,
Jandek,
Marcia Griffiths,
Arcadia,
T. Rex,
The Names,
The Golliwogs,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Babytalk,
Ossler,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Count Five,
The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas.
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.