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 Manila.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 a-ha to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Terry Callier. All the underground hits.
All Susan Cadogan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Graham Central Station record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neu! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Monolake,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Altered Images,
Peter & Gordon,
The Remains,
The Raincoats,
Ituana,
Roy Ayers,
Dorothy Ashby,
Patti Smith,
The Gladiators,
Tres Demented,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Audionom,
Shuggie Otis,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Standells,
Anakelly,
The Cure,
Pagans,
Carl Craig,
The J.B.'s,
AZ,
The Trojans,
Archie Shepp,
Scott Walker,
Radiohead,
Faust,
Scrapy,
Gastr Del Sol,
Tom Boy,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Blancmange,
Basic Channel,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Delon & Dalcan,
Camberwell Now,
Minnie Riperton,
Derrick Morgan,
Aswad,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Fluxion,
Ultra Naté,
John Foxx,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The United States of America,
Roxette,
Unrelated Segments,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Tommy Roe,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Young Rascals,
Cluster,
X-Ray Spex,
Jeff Lynne,
New York Dolls,
Rapeman,
The Searchers,
Minny Pops,
Pharoah Sanders,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Sound,
Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland.
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.