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 Eritrea and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 guitar 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 Spoonie Gee to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 A Certain Ratio. All the underground hits.
All Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hot Snakes 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a EPMD record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Basic Channel,
Eden Ahbez,
Eric Copeland,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Joe Finger,
Sparks,
Slave,
Don Cherry,
Michelle Simonal,
Joyce Sims,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
E-Dancer,
Ice-T,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
K-Klass,
Marc Almond,
Lyres,
Warren Ellis,
Gang of Four,
Godley & Creme,
Minny Pops,
Dark Day,
The Young Rascals,
Fela Kuti,
Technova,
John Lydon,
Frankie Knuckles,
Pylon,
Marmalade,
Ronnie Foster,
Lou Christie,
Ornette Coleman,
Goldenarms,
The Gladiators,
Gabor Szabo,
The Associates,
Eurythmics,
Pet Shop Boys,
Roy Ayers,
Parry Music,
Procol Harum,
Rosa Yemen,
Sister Nancy,
Charles Mingus,
China Crisis,
Tears for Fears,
Rapeman,
10cc,
The Gap Band,
Tom Boy,
Public Enemy,
Loose Ends,
kango's stein massive,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Rufus Thomas,
David Bowie,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Saints,
Pere Ubu,
Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe.
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.