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 Congo and from Portland.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Brick to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Faust. All the underground hits.
All The Trojans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
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 New Age Steppers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Make Up,
The Standells,
LL Cool J,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Nas,
The Skatalites,
Banda Bassotti,
Rod Modell,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Suicide,
Black Moon,
Ultimate Spinach,
Barbara Tucker,
New York Dolls,
Jandek,
Neu!,
Byron Stingily,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rakim,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Alarm Clocks,
Jeff Mills,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Index,
Carl Craig,
Rites of Spring,
John Coltrane,
Masters at Work,
Tomorrow,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Vladislav Delay,
Ronan,
The Seeds,
The Pop Group,
Schoolly D,
Tom Boy,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Flash Fearless,
Sparks,
Interpol,
Average White Band,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Fuzztones,
The Doobie Brothers,
Silicon Teens,
Popol Vuh,
Circle Jerks,
a-ha,
This Heat,
Glenn Branca,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Aloha Tigers,
R.M.O.,
Letta Mbulu,
Crooked Eye,
The Trojans,
The American Breed,
The Last Poets,
Soul Sonic Force,
Metal Thangz,
La Düsseldorf,
Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls.
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.