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 Belarus and from Paris.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Mexico City.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Parry Music to the techno 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 Organ. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pet Shop Boys 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 48th St. Collective record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Groovy Waters,
Whodini,
Jeff Mills,
Isaac Hayes,
Byron Stingily,
The Grass Roots,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Roger Hodgson,
JFA,
John Foxx,
Letta Mbulu,
Television Personalities,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Yazoo,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ultravox,
U.S. Maple,
Make Up,
The Gap Band,
Popol Vuh,
The Litter,
E-Dancer,
The Happenings,
Iggy Pop,
Outsiders,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Aloha Tigers,
Goldenarms,
Lindisfarne,
Johnny Osbourne,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ash Ra Tempel,
David McCallum,
New Order,
Black Flag,
Tears for Fears,
Cameo,
Scratch Acid,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Royal Trux,
Sixth Finger,
Tropical Tobacco,
Matthew Halsall,
Gabor Szabo,
Aswad,
Kas Product,
Bauhaus,
Joe Smooth,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sällskapet,
Idris Muhammad,
Tubeway Army,
A Certain Ratio,
Derrick Morgan,
June of 44,
Fort Wilson Riot,
EPMD,
Junior Murvin,
The Count Five,
The Dead C,
10cc,
Gang of Four, Gang of Four, Gang of Four, Gang of Four.
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.