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 Iraq and from Jakarta.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 James Chance & The Contortions to the electroclash 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Frankie Knuckles record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Depeche Mode record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Suicide,
Dawn Penn,
Black Sheep,
Kerrie Biddell,
Andrew Hill,
Lakeside,
Derrick Morgan,
Minnie Riperton,
Supertramp,
Freddie Wadling,
Livin' Joy,
Banda Bassotti,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Darondo,
Liliput,
Barclay James Harvest,
the Germs,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
DNA,
Skaos,
Los Fastidios,
Moby Grape,
Hashim,
The Golliwogs,
FM Einheit,
Man Eating Sloth,
Roxy Music,
The Misunderstood,
Dark Day,
Janne Schatter,
Davy DMX,
Severed Heads,
The New Christs,
Terry Callier,
Kaleidoscope,
Loose Ends,
The Seeds,
The Selecter,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Offenders,
Intrusion,
Procol Harum,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Avey Tare,
Maurizio,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Slick Rick,
The Gap Band,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Remains,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Jacques Brel,
Agent Orange,
EPMD,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Eden Ahbez,
Tom Boy,
Bush Tetras,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Associates,
Jesper Dahlback,
Half Japanese,
Aloha Tigers,
The Slackers, The Slackers, The Slackers, The Slackers.
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.