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 United Kingdom and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Hashim to the rap 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam. All the underground hits.
All Urselle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Smog record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Crispian St. Peters,
Pantytec,
Althea and Donna,
Joy Division,
The Residents,
Silicon Teens,
Duran Duran,
Deadbeat,
The Selecter,
Brick,
John Lydon,
Agent Orange,
Ituana,
Danielle Patucci,
Lower 48,
Ultimate Spinach,
Rod Modell,
The Angels of Light,
Fluxion,
Eve St. Jones,
Bush Tetras,
Interpol,
Guru Guru,
Y Pants,
Ossler,
The Modern Lovers,
Joe Smooth,
Barry Ungar,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Spoonie Gee,
Tropical Tobacco,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Fugazi,
Infiniti,
The Cramps,
Aural Exciters,
David Axelrod,
Swans,
Altered Images,
Lakeside,
The Wake,
The Offenders,
Grandmaster Flash,
Gichy Dan,
LL Cool J,
Wolf Eyes,
Glambeats Corp.,
Mars,
Heaven 17,
Roxette,
The American Breed,
The Dave Clark Five,
Gong,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Standells,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Fugs,
Quantec,
Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes.
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.