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 San Marino and from Bremen.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 chamberlin 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 Chrome to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All Gang of Four tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lakeside record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Star Department,
Hashim,
La Düsseldorf,
X-102,
Thee Headcoats,
Cameo,
Moby Grape,
Deakin,
Black Bananas,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Gang of Four,
48th St. Collective,
The Fortunes,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Associates,
Slick Rick,
Ultra Naté,
Lee Hazlewood,
Agitation Free,
Echospace,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Main Source,
Nick Fraelich,
Rites of Spring,
Stereo Dub,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Mummies,
The Moody Blues,
The Slits,
Vainqueur,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sam Rivers,
The Motions,
The Slackers,
Soul II Soul,
Glenn Branca,
Altered Images,
Banda Bassotti,
Adolescents,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Aloha Tigers,
Michelle Simonal,
Ice-T,
June of 44,
The Durutti Column,
The Standells,
Lightning Bolt,
Liliput,
Kevin Saunderson,
Scientists,
Blancmange,
Bill Wells,
Lalann,
Wings,
Leonard Cohen,
Eric Copeland,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Blackbyrds,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Spandau Ballet,
Ponytail,
Rakim,
Marc Almond, Marc Almond, Marc Almond, Marc Almond.
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.