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 Senegal and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 spring reverb 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 David McCallum to the jazz 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 Ralphi Rosario. All the underground hits.
All CMW tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Curtis Mayfield record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Absolute Body Control record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mighty Diamonds,
This Heat,
Tres Demented,
Steve Hackett,
Rakim,
Soft Machine,
Von Mondo,
Swell Maps,
Skriet,
The Cramps,
Flipper,
Brick,
The Young Rascals,
New Order,
Unrelated Segments,
Loose Ends,
Soul Sonic Force,
Boogie Down Productions,
Leonard Cohen,
The Flesh Eaters,
Skaos,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Black Dice,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
U.S. Maple,
a-ha,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Rosa Yemen,
Audionom,
Duran Duran,
Kas Product,
F. McDonald,
Vainqueur,
Cluster,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Mars,
Absolute Body Control,
Das Ding,
Joe Finger,
the Human League,
Patti Smith,
Quadrant,
Deadbeat,
Bang On A Can,
Grauzone,
Albert Ayler,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Clear Light,
Massinfluence,
Main Source,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Stiv Bators,
Darondo,
Intrusion,
The Offenders,
Cameo,
Suburban Knight,
Nils Olav,
The Buckinghams,
Peter & Gordon,
The Wake,
Sugar Minott,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Juan Atkins,
Gong, Gong, Gong, Gong.
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.