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 Palau and from Philadelphia.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Cairo.
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 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 Easy Going to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Sugar Minott. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kurtis Blow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Saccharine Trust record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Metal Thangz,
Unrelated Segments,
Cheater Slicks,
Jandek,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Kevin Saunderson,
Fluxion,
Connie Case,
The Angels of Light,
Mad Mike,
Rites of Spring,
The Shadows of Knight,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Beau Brummels,
New Order,
Arthur Verocai,
Lebanon Hanover,
Bobby Byrd,
Michelle Simonal,
Essential Logic,
The United States of America,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Flipper,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Funkadelic,
Fela Kuti,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Television Personalities,
Iggy Pop,
Monks,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
JFA,
Von Mondo,
Q and Not U,
Aloha Tigers,
A Certain Ratio,
Pantytec,
Henry Cow,
Minor Threat,
Sound Behaviour,
AZ,
The Slits,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Delta 5,
The Neon Judgement,
Susan Cadogan,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Evens,
Franke,
Gang of Four,
Groovy Waters,
Procol Harum,
Saccharine Trust,
Can,
The Pop Group,
Joe Finger,
Television,
Pet Shop Boys,
Massinfluence,
Robert Görl,
Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango.
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.