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 Australia and from Tokyo.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Subhumans to the crunk 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 Lindisfarne. All the underground hits.
All Soul Sonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Urselle 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quantec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül II,
Yellowson,
Al Stewart,
Kas Product,
Minor Threat,
Ten City,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Wake,
Frankie Knuckles,
Neu!,
Sonic Youth,
Eden Ahbez,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Moebius,
Dark Day,
The Gun Club,
OOIOO,
the Germs,
The Invisible,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Radiopuhelimet,
The American Breed,
Blossom Toes,
Lou Christie,
Reagan Youth,
Minutemen,
Oblivians,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Archie Shepp,
Joe Smooth,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Harmonia,
Sound Behaviour,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Evens,
Stetsasonic,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Mars,
Davy DMX,
Laurel Aitken,
Andrew Hill,
Quando Quango,
Spoonie Gee,
Liliput,
Carl Craig,
The Pop Group,
Can,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Suicide,
Glenn Branca,
The Smiths,
Saccharine Trust,
Heaven 17,
Drive Like Jehu,
Marc Almond,
Glambeats Corp.,
Wasted Youth,
Bobby Byrd,
Procol Harum,
Harry Pussy, Harry Pussy, Harry Pussy, Harry Pussy.
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.