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 Spain 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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Agitation Free to the techno 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 The Birthday Party. All the underground hits.
All The Real Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronnie Foster record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Duran Duran record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Young Rascals,
Sandy B,
Unrelated Segments,
Flash Fearless,
Nirvana,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sight & Sound,
Byron Stingily,
JFA,
Symarip,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
UT,
The New Christs,
Delon & Dalcan,
Brand Nubian,
Joyce Sims,
Mantronix,
Organ,
Harry Pussy,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
B.T. Express,
Pulsallama,
Barbara Tucker,
Rod Modell,
Rotary Connection,
Hoover,
D'Angelo,
Ronan,
Unwound,
Little Man,
Severed Heads,
Todd Rundgren,
Agitation Free,
Johnny Clarke,
Kas Product,
Marvin Gaye,
The Gladiators,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Marcia Griffiths,
Aaron Thompson,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
David Bowie,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Wings,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Ronnie Foster,
The Fugs,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The United States of America,
Bill Near,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Kurtis Blow,
Fat Boys,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sällskapet,
Lou Reed,
ABBA,
Kenny Larkin,
Sexual Harrassment,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Eric Copeland,
Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins.
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.