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 Ireland and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Donald Fagen 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 The Men They Couldn't Hang 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 the Bar-Kays. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & John Cale record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Tremeloes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swell Maps,
The Five Americans,
Big Daddy Kane,
Tomorrow,
Lower 48,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Nas,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Patti Smith,
Sandy B,
Terry Callier,
Roxette,
Man Parrish,
Harpers Bizarre,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Carl Craig,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
John Cale,
Quantec,
Aaron Thompson,
The Gladiators,
The Buckinghams,
Electric Prunes,
Idris Muhammad,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Negative Approach,
The Fugs,
Crispian St. Peters,
Soul II Soul,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Harry Pussy,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Music Machine,
Gregory Isaacs,
Blossom Toes,
Mr. Review,
Deepchord,
Rotary Connection,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Crooked Eye,
Neu!,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Royal Trux,
Soulsonic Force,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Blancmange,
Colin Newman,
Flipper,
Nik Kershaw,
Scientists,
The Tremeloes,
New Order,
The Victims,
Scratch Acid,
Bootsy Collins,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Max Romeo,
cv313,
Little Man,
The Modern Lovers,
Second Layer,
Panda Bear,
Derrick May, Derrick May, Derrick May, Derrick May.
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.