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 Gambia and from Manila.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Avey Tare to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Spandau Ballet. All the underground hits.
All Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Animal Collective record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
LL Cool J,
Black Bananas,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
China Crisis,
The Barracudas,
PIL,
Graham Central Station,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Invisible,
Sonic Youth,
Eurythmics,
Brothers Johnson,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Archie Shepp,
June of 44,
a-ha,
Sandy B,
Cybotron,
Roxy Music,
Gang Starr,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ponytail,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Qualms,
Audionom,
Nick Fraelich,
The Electric Prunes,
UT,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Juan Atkins,
Bauhaus,
Cameo,
Supertramp,
Spandau Ballet,
Jawbox,
MC5,
Andrew Hill,
Suburban Knight,
Hoover,
Pagans,
Funkadelic,
Ten City,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Names,
Dawn Penn,
Gang Gang Dance,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Derrick Morgan,
Joe Finger,
Chris & Cosey,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Nirvana,
Kevin Saunderson,
DNA,
Saccharine Trust,
Crash Course in Science,
Michelle Simonal,
Derrick May,
Mantronix,
Kas Product,
Lou Christie,
L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne.
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.