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 Guinea-Bissau and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 linndrum 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 Lightning Bolt to the punk 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 Boogie Down Productions. All the underground hits.
All Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dave Gahan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sixth Finger,
The Sonics,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lower 48,
Jacob Miller,
The Doobie Brothers,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
June Days,
Donny Hathaway,
CMW,
Au Pairs,
Harmonia,
Inner City,
Erasure,
X-Ray Spex,
Thompson Twins,
Y Pants,
Judy Mowatt,
Big Daddy Kane,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Seeds,
Second Layer,
Matthew Bourne,
Fatback Band,
Barbara Tucker,
John Holt,
MC5,
The Birthday Party,
Rufus Thomas,
Soulsonic Force,
Jawbox,
Roger Hodgson,
Dennis Brown,
The Techniques,
The Martian,
Tropical Tobacco,
Glenn Branca,
Marcia Griffiths,
Echospace,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sällskapet,
The Pop Group,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Skatalites,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Simply Red,
Hasil Adkins,
DJ Style,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Spandau Ballet,
Sandy B,
Todd Terry,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Flamin' Groovies,
Kool Moe Dee,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Pylon,
Hoover, Hoover, Hoover, Hoover.
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.