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 Maldives and from Philadelphia.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the dance 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 Fort Wilson Riot. All the underground hits.
All Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Raincoats 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a H. Thieme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mission of Burma,
Lou Reed,
Rotary Connection,
Yazoo,
Schoolly D,
Tommy Roe,
Soul II Soul,
UT,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
LL Cool J,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
L. Decosne,
The Techniques,
The Fuzztones,
Ultravox,
The Five Americans,
Magma,
Sound Behaviour,
Von Mondo,
Arthur Verocai,
Black Sheep,
Avey Tare,
Aloha Tigers,
Flash Fearless,
World's Most,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Soft Cell,
D'Angelo,
Junior Murvin,
Deadbeat,
Wolf Eyes,
Stockholm Monsters,
DJ Sneak,
The Sonics,
The Saints,
Lightning Bolt,
Quadrant,
Model 500,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Alarm Clocks,
Duran Duran,
Reagan Youth,
Pylon,
Al Stewart,
The Residents,
Metal Thangz,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Minnie Riperton,
Rod Modell,
Gang Gang Dance,
Cheater Slicks,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Radiopuhelimet,
Joe Finger,
Malaria!,
Eddi Front,
Dawn Penn,
Terry Callier,
Excepter,
Bush Tetras,
Matthew Halsall,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Count Five,
Letta Mbulu,
Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops.
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.