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 Marshall Islands and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Marshall Jefferson. All the underground hits.
All R.M.O. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June of 44 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alison Limerick,
Soft Cell,
The Doobie Brothers,
10cc,
Jawbox,
The Cowsills,
Soulsonic Force,
Animal Collective,
John Lydon,
Guru Guru,
Joe Finger,
Drexciya,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sixth Finger,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Deakin,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Zeros,
The Slits,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Visage,
John Foxx,
KRS-One,
Jerry's Kids,
Pierre Henry,
Eyeless In Gaza,
the Normal,
Ornette Coleman,
The Fuzztones,
Hoover,
Thee Headcoats,
Camberwell Now,
Dual Sessions,
Technova,
These Immortal Souls,
Robert Wyatt,
In Retrospect,
The Blackbyrds,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Bush Tetras,
Fad Gadget,
Peter & Gordon,
Danielle Patucci,
Davy DMX,
Yazoo,
Bobby Sherman,
Ice-T,
Lou Christie,
The Fortunes,
Blossom Toes,
Yusef Lateef,
Delta 5,
Dawn Penn,
Mars,
Gong,
Kenny Larkin,
Con Funk Shun,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Todd Terry,
T.S.O.L.,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bobby Womack,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.