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 Kenya and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 oboe 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 Iggy Pop to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 the Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All the Bar-Kays tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Idris Muhammad record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Boredoms,
Tim Buckley,
Dual Sessions,
Reagan Youth,
The Selecter,
Terrestrial Tones,
Audionom,
Marc Almond,
X-Ray Spex,
Sixth Finger,
David Bowie,
Q65,
Hashim,
John Lydon,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Fugs,
Echospace,
Depeche Mode,
The Gladiators,
Scrapy,
Sugar Minott,
Morten Harket,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lakeside,
Michelle Simonal,
Television Personalities,
Saccharine Trust,
X-101,
Liliput,
Jerry's Kids,
Alphaville,
the Sonics,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Spandau Ballet,
Connie Case,
Camberwell Now,
Scratch Acid,
The Real Kids,
The Knickerbockers,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Leaves,
Pantytec,
Kool Moe Dee,
R.M.O.,
Wasted Youth,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Toni Rubio,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
One Last Wish,
John Coltrane,
Aloha Tigers,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Alton Ellis,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Letta Mbulu,
Al Stewart,
10cc,
The Monks,
Patti Smith,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.