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 Poland and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Connie Case to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 New Order. All the underground hits.
All Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brothers Johnson,
Aural Exciters,
Bob Dylan,
The Slits,
Cymande,
Radio Birdman,
Roxy Music,
Man Parrish,
Janne Schatter,
Cluster,
The Real Kids,
New Order,
Todd Rundgren,
The Dead C,
Peter and Kerry,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
L. Decosne,
cv313,
Minny Pops,
Jacob Miller,
Sun City Girls,
Amon Düül,
Tubeway Army,
OOIOO,
Maurizio,
The American Breed,
Negative Approach,
Ultra Naté,
The Happenings,
The Cramps,
Popol Vuh,
Matthew Bourne,
Little Man,
Soul Sonic Force,
Silicon Teens,
Wolf Eyes,
Nirvana,
The Flesh Eaters,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Bill Wells,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Vainqueur,
Lower 48,
Basic Channel,
Banda Bassotti,
The Smoke,
Wings,
Ponytail,
Joey Negro,
Delta 5,
Blancmange,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Infiniti,
The Standells,
The Alarm Clocks,
John Coltrane,
Ultravox,
Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators.
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.