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 Paraguay and from Madrid.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 This Heat to the disco 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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme. All the underground hits.
All Barry Ungar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lizzy Mercier Descloux record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Monochrome Set,
Sällskapet,
The Real Kids,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Tremeloes,
Inner City,
Lucky Dragons,
Trumans Water,
Zapp,
One Last Wish,
Jeff Lynne,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Henry Cow,
Deepchord,
ABBA,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Derrick Morgan,
Scientists,
Danielle Patucci,
kango's stein massive,
Smog,
Drexciya,
Rosa Yemen,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Wally Richardson,
Vainqueur,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joensuu 1685,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Circle Jerks,
The Slits,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Cybotron,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Grey Daturas,
The Misunderstood,
Outsiders,
Young Marble Giants,
Qualms,
Sonny Sharrock,
Organ,
Bobbi Humphrey,
H. Thieme,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Bizarre Inc.,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Dennis Brown,
The Move,
Ultimate Spinach,
a-ha,
Bob Dylan,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Clear Light,
Prince Buster,
Joey Negro,
Hasil Adkins,
These Immortal Souls,
Pylon,
Marvin Gaye,
Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway.
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.