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 Finland and from Hong Kong.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 güiro 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 Mars to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Porter Ricks. All the underground hits.
All Marcia Griffiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gories,
The Mojo Men,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Ultra Naté,
Saccharine Trust,
The Fuzztones,
Jeff Lynne,
Warren Ellis,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
the Normal,
Duran Duran,
Gang Green,
Mo-Dettes,
Quadrant,
Slave,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Derrick Morgan,
One Last Wish,
F. McDonald,
Thompson Twins,
The Modern Lovers,
Aaron Thompson,
The Last Poets,
Lou Reed,
Magazine,
Brand Nubian,
Radiohead,
Black Pus,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Masters at Work,
The Vogues,
Kas Product,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Godley & Creme,
Half Japanese,
The Pretty Things,
Spandau Ballet,
Youth Brigade,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Parry Music,
Marvin Gaye,
Ornette Coleman,
Bootsy Collins,
The Real Kids,
The Techniques,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Whodini,
Au Pairs,
Babytalk,
Bush Tetras,
Accadde A,
Robert Görl,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Ludus,
Matthew Bourne,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Symarip,
Ultravox,
Skarface,
Country Teasers,
Underground Resistance,
Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet.
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.