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 Nauru and from Glasgow.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the mellotron 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 David McCallum to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Graham Central Station. All the underground hits.
All The Toasters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lucky Dragons record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Babytalk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABC,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
F. McDonald,
Nirvana,
Arab on Radar,
Toni Rubio,
Thompson Twins,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Slave,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Intrusion,
Sam Rivers,
Anthony Braxton,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bill Near,
Mr. Review,
Sarah Menescal,
These Immortal Souls,
Excepter,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Eden Ahbez,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Sonics,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Fear,
The Tremeloes,
the Sonics,
Lebanon Hanover,
Ronan,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Walker Brothers,
New Order,
Masters at Work,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Young Marble Giants,
Nik Kershaw,
The J.B.'s,
Johnny Clarke,
Swans,
The Velvet Underground,
Nas,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Arcadia,
The Buckinghams,
The Gories,
Rites of Spring,
John Holt,
The Last Poets,
Joy Division,
Scott Walker,
Ohio Players,
Danielle Patucci,
The New Christs,
Fad Gadget,
The Sisters of Mercy,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
the Association,
In Retrospect,
Wally Richardson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.