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 Madagascar and from Lille.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 theremin 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 The Royal Family And The Poor to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Country Joe & The Fish. All the underground hits.
All In Retrospect tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonny Sharrock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angels of Light & Akron/Family record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
Spoonie Gee,
Alison Limerick,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Fire Engines,
Swell Maps,
Judy Mowatt,
Spandau Ballet,
Absolute Body Control,
Cheater Slicks,
Gil Scott Heron,
Livin' Joy,
Bobby Sherman,
Basic Channel,
The Cure,
Camouflage,
Wally Richardson,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Arthur Verocai,
Warsaw,
Lower 48,
Drive Like Jehu,
Jeru the Damaja,
Morten Harket,
Sixth Finger,
Max Romeo,
Robert Görl,
Kerrie Biddell,
Maleditus Sound,
Scott Walker,
Wings,
Kevin Saunderson,
Roy Ayers,
Bang On A Can,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Electric Prunes,
Maurizio,
Motorama,
Barbara Tucker,
Siglo XX,
Das Ding,
The Techniques,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Real Kids,
Gang of Four,
Curtis Mayfield,
Slave,
Infiniti,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
D'Angelo,
Thee Headcoats,
Goldenarms,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Eden Ahbez,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Dirtbombs,
Kurtis Blow,
Josef K,
Delta 5,
Lakeside,
Excepter,
Radio Birdman,
The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers.
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.