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 Antigua and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 linndrum 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 Alphaville to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Dave Gahan. All the underground hits.
All Cymande tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nico record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Motorama record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Dolphy,
Peter and Kerry,
X-102,
Johnny Osbourne,
Thee Headcoats,
Whodini,
Country Teasers,
Electric Prunes,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Excepter,
Heaven 17,
Audionom,
Duran Duran,
Cymande,
ABC,
The Gap Band,
D'Angelo,
The Searchers,
Lyres,
the Soft Cell,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Velvet Underground,
The Residents,
Hashim,
Sister Nancy,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Wake,
Fad Gadget,
Subhumans,
Lakeside,
Jeff Mills,
Bobby Byrd,
The Martian,
The Sound,
Nik Kershaw,
Eddi Front,
MC5,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Terrestrial Tones,
La Düsseldorf,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Jesper Dahlback,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Count Five,
Glambeats Corp.,
Nirvana,
Sun Ra,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Smiths,
X-Ray Spex,
Lower 48,
Echospace,
The Slits,
Frankie Knuckles,
Harmonia,
The Fugs,
Unwound,
Skaos,
China Crisis,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood.
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.