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 Indonesia and from Philadelphia.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 One Last Wish to the rap 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 ABBA. All the underground hits.
All Slick Rick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Loose Ends record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Golliwogs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Spoonie Gee,
The Red Krayola,
Unwound,
ABC,
Underground Resistance,
These Immortal Souls,
Minor Threat,
Public Enemy,
Section 25,
Andrew Hill,
Brass Construction,
Black Moon,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Letta Mbulu,
Howard Jones,
Aaron Thompson,
Massinfluence,
Ronnie Foster,
Ludus,
R.M.O.,
The Move,
Siglo XX,
Lou Christie,
Lucky Dragons,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Harpers Bizarre,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Qualms,
Vainqueur,
E-Dancer,
Bauhaus,
Cymande,
Easy Going,
Fugazi,
Kenny Larkin,
Johnny Osbourne,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Mantronix,
The Gories,
Robert Wyatt,
Unrelated Segments,
the Human League,
Zapp,
Liliput,
AZ,
Ronan,
The Blackbyrds,
The Fire Engines,
Television Personalities,
The Modern Lovers,
One Last Wish,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
June Days,
The Golliwogs,
The Dead C,
Lungfish,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Ralphi Rosario,
Barry Ungar,
OOIOO,
Ten City,
Oblivians,
Flamin' Groovies,
Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers.
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.