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 Sweden and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 synthesizer 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 DeepChord presents Echospace to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Loose Ends. All the underground hits.
All The Knickerbockers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Teenage Jesus and the Jerks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mary Jane Girls,
Thompson Twins,
Au Pairs,
Godley & Creme,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
the Sonics,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Rekid,
Q and Not U,
Robert Görl,
Bob Dylan,
ABC,
Young Marble Giants,
Blake Baxter,
Swans,
Sight & Sound,
The Knickerbockers,
Suburban Knight,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lindisfarne,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Chrome,
Excepter,
Terrestrial Tones,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Music Machine,
Slave,
Sällskapet,
The Buckinghams,
Lower 48,
Lucky Dragons,
Kurtis Blow,
Tubeway Army,
Monolake,
Wally Richardson,
Sandy B,
Dead Boys,
The Human League,
Groovy Waters,
LL Cool J,
Brass Construction,
Con Funk Shun,
AZ,
A Certain Ratio,
Throbbing Gristle,
Masters at Work,
John Foxx,
Depeche Mode,
Man Parrish,
The Selecter,
Swell Maps,
Electric Prunes,
Visage,
Television Personalities,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Saints,
Gichy Dan,
Surgeon,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Warsaw,
48th St. Collective,
Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu.
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.