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 Kuwait and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Residents to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Jeff Mills. All the underground hits.
All Morten Harket tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Rundgren 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 spring reverb and a güiro 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 guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Piero Umiliani,
Young Marble Giants,
Stiv Bators,
Von Mondo,
Scan 7,
Roxy Music,
Royal Trux,
Pantaleimon,
Pole,
Rekid,
Ice-T,
Bluetip,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Youth Brigade,
Pagans,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Wolf Eyes,
The Beau Brummels,
The Happenings,
Eden Ahbez,
X-102,
Bill Wells,
The Shadows of Knight,
Khruangbin,
Freddie Wadling,
Alphaville,
Negative Approach,
Joe Smooth,
Sugar Minott,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Soft Cell,
Reuben Wilson,
Pulsallama,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Black Pus,
Erykah Badu,
David Axelrod,
Masters at Work,
The Fire Engines,
Bronski Beat,
Maleditus Sound,
The Blackbyrds,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
New Age Steppers,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Patti Smith,
The J.B.'s,
The Divine Comedy,
Subhumans,
Sarah Menescal,
Rakim,
Make Up,
Letta Mbulu,
Buzzcocks,
Bauhaus,
Man Parrish,
Eurythmics,
Alton Ellis,
Mo-Dettes,
Little Man, Little Man, Little Man, Little Man.
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.