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 Kenya and from Paris.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 PIL to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Mojo Men. All the underground hits.
All 48th St. Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masters at Work 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June Days record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Cluster,
The Walker Brothers,
The Divine Comedy,
Glenn Branca,
The Beau Brummels,
Alton Ellis,
Kayak,
L. Decosne,
The Black Dice,
Outsiders,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Robert Wyatt,
Steve Hackett,
Marine Girls,
Average White Band,
Skriet,
Frankie Knuckles,
Barbara Tucker,
Althea and Donna,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Television Personalities,
Quantec,
Excepter,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Faraquet,
The Associates,
The Fortunes,
The Music Machine,
Slick Rick,
Bill Wells,
Henry Cow,
Con Funk Shun,
Eden Ahbez,
Blake Baxter,
The Raincoats,
Severed Heads,
the Germs,
Procol Harum,
R.M.O.,
Inner City,
Vladislav Delay,
Isaac Hayes,
The Real Kids,
Fifty Foot Hose,
John Holt,
Ossler,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Skatalites,
Radio Birdman,
D'Angelo,
Marvin Gaye,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Star Department,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Index,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Siglo XX,
Soul II Soul,
Kerri Chandler,
Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan.
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.