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 Liechtenstein and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 guitar 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 Bobby Sherman to the grime 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 Tres Demented. All the underground hits.
All Vainqueur tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chris & Cosey record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
OOIOO,
Brand Nubian,
Nirvana,
kango's stein massive,
Radiopuhelimet,
Bobby Byrd,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Freddie Wadling,
Con Funk Shun,
Country Teasers,
Man Eating Sloth,
cv313,
Television,
Panda Bear,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Gun Club,
The Alarm Clocks,
Minny Pops,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lucky Dragons,
Gang Gang Dance,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Lakeside,
The Zeros,
The Five Americans,
X-Ray Spex,
Brick,
Scion,
Marine Girls,
the Association,
Scott Walker,
These Immortal Souls,
Circle Jerks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Offenders,
Little Man,
Byron Stingily,
Soft Cell,
Au Pairs,
Heaven 17,
Dawn Penn,
Drive Like Jehu,
Yazoo,
Livin' Joy,
Crispian St. Peters,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Marmalade,
Easy Going,
Moss Icon,
The Gap Band,
Bronski Beat,
Gabor Szabo,
Mandrill,
Boz Scaggs,
Malaria!,
Barclay James Harvest,
Pulsallama,
June of 44,
Joensuu 1685,
Sonic Youth,
The Fuzztones,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.