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 Malawi and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Mojo Men to the rock 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 Hot Snakes. All the underground hits.
All Richard Hell and the Voidoids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Con Funk Shun 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wally Richardson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Adolescents,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Brand Nubian,
The Buckinghams,
The Pop Group,
Arab on Radar,
Maurizio,
Drive Like Jehu,
Public Image Ltd.,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pierre Henry,
Matthew Bourne,
Soft Cell,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Mandrill,
These Immortal Souls,
Graham Central Station,
Kas Product,
Dawn Penn,
Average White Band,
The Black Dice,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Marshall Jefferson,
Altered Images,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Surgeon,
Steve Hackett,
Massinfluence,
Drexciya,
The Vogues,
Vainqueur,
Joey Negro,
China Crisis,
Minny Pops,
The Young Rascals,
Quantec,
Lyres,
Sound Behaviour,
Youth Brigade,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Delon & Dalcan,
Nirvana,
The Motions,
The Doors,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Bobby Byrd,
The Skatalites,
Blake Baxter,
Henry Cow,
Pagans,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Interpol,
Ituana,
Curtis Mayfield,
Amon Düül II,
Young Marble Giants,
Bill Near,
Silicon Teens,
The Flesh Eaters,
Dual Sessions,
Mark Hollis,
Con Funk Shun,
D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo.
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.