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 Finland and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Cosmic Jokers to the rock 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 Babytalk. All the underground hits.
All ABBA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Smog record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ituana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ten City,
The Happenings,
Duran Duran,
Trumans Water,
Stiv Bators,
a-ha,
Joey Negro,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Chris & Cosey,
Echospace,
Jimmy McGriff,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Schoolly D,
Public Image Ltd.,
U.S. Maple,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ronnie Foster,
Yellowson,
Henry Cow,
Reuben Wilson,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Nils Olav,
Davy DMX,
Lucky Dragons,
the Slits,
Prince Buster,
David McCallum,
Rites of Spring,
Bobby Womack,
Sam Rivers,
Kevin Saunderson,
Rufus Thomas,
Warsaw,
Radiohead,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Man Parrish,
Eli Mardock,
F. McDonald,
Hardrive,
The Mojo Men,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
David Bowie,
Freddie Wadling,
Todd Rundgren,
Amon Düül,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Moleskins,
Smog,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Johnny Osbourne,
Jeru the Damaja,
Peter & Gordon,
Swell Maps,
Lou Reed,
The Alarm Clocks,
Public Enemy,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Harry Pussy, Harry Pussy, Harry Pussy, Harry Pussy.
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.