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 Madagascar and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Unwound to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All Joey Negro tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Move record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sällskapet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Flag,
Yazoo,
Fad Gadget,
This Heat,
Eli Mardock,
Au Pairs,
The Slackers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Stiv Bators,
Sugar Minott,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Howard Jones,
Barclay James Harvest,
Rotary Connection,
Jandek,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Minor Threat,
Curtis Mayfield,
Robert Görl,
Robert Wyatt,
The Offenders,
The Seeds,
Vladislav Delay,
Hot Snakes,
The Busters,
Camouflage,
Lindisfarne,
David McCallum,
The Electric Prunes,
Alison Limerick,
Ultimate Spinach,
Gabor Szabo,
Guru Guru,
Soul II Soul,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Thompson Twins,
Goldenarms,
Patti Smith,
Judy Mowatt,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Schoolly D,
Quantec,
June Days,
ABC,
Marc Almond,
Dawn Penn,
Rhythm & Sound,
Jeff Lynne,
Urselle,
The Doobie Brothers,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Soft Machine,
Essential Logic,
The Gladiators,
The Names,
The Real Kids,
Average White Band,
The Victims,
Todd Terry,
Fluxion, Fluxion, Fluxion, Fluxion.
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.