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 Peru and from Portland.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 R.M.O. to the crunk 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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All Roxette tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Major Organ And The Adding Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scratch Acid,
Camouflage,
Bobby Sherman,
Con Funk Shun,
Scan 7,
Supertramp,
JFA,
Massinfluence,
Eden Ahbez,
Max Romeo,
Erykah Badu,
Ituana,
Organ,
The Move,
Sandy B,
Soft Cell,
Oneida,
DJ Sneak,
Flash Fearless,
Piero Umiliani,
Bad Manners,
Urselle,
The Mummies,
The Grass Roots,
Eurythmics,
Marcia Griffiths,
MDC,
X-101,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Dead Boys,
Flipper,
Freddie Wadling,
Anthony Braxton,
Kerrie Biddell,
Minutemen,
The Moody Blues,
Joensuu 1685,
Donny Hathaway,
Dual Sessions,
Electric Prunes,
In Retrospect,
Nik Kershaw,
John Cale,
Unrelated Segments,
A Certain Ratio,
The Dirtbombs,
Suburban Knight,
Sarah Menescal,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Count Five,
The Misunderstood,
EPMD,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Masters at Work,
Malaria!,
Monks,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Barrington Levy,
Bill Near,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
48th St. Collective,
Sugar Minott,
Morten Harket,
Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo.
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.