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 Chile and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 Michael McDonald 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 DJ Sneak to the rock 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 Eyeless In Gaza. All the underground hits.
All L. Decosne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Moody Blues record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siouxsie and the Banshees record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Knickerbockers,
Mary Jane Girls,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Babytalk,
Icehouse,
Pylon,
Cameo,
Black Flag,
Alice Coltrane,
Jimmy McGriff,
10cc,
Anthony Braxton,
JFA,
Pulsallama,
Jacob Miller,
Dual Sessions,
Pagans,
Simply Red,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Eric Copeland,
Danielle Patucci,
Amon Düül II,
The Gap Band,
Gang Starr,
Procol Harum,
In Retrospect,
The Searchers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Tres Demented,
Wally Richardson,
Spoonie Gee,
Lindisfarne,
Theoretical Girls,
Au Pairs,
Clear Light,
John Lydon,
Can,
Khruangbin,
Nik Kershaw,
Duran Duran,
LL Cool J,
Technova,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Angry Samoans,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Happenings,
Blancmange,
Flamin' Groovies,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Glenn Branca,
The Angels of Light,
Slick Rick,
Whodini,
Traffic Nightmare,
CMW,
Oblivians,
Crooked Eye,
June of 44,
Jacques Brel,
Charles Mingus,
Bill Near,
World's Most,
Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product.
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.