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 Argentina and from Portland.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Edmonton.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Bizarre Inc. to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Thompson Twins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Spoonie Gee record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Lakeside,
The Five Americans,
Essential Logic,
Absolute Body Control,
The Gun Club,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Archie Shepp,
The United States of America,
DJ Style,
World's Most,
Drexciya,
D'Angelo,
Derrick Morgan,
The Detroit Cobras,
Whodini,
Morten Harket,
Joe Finger,
Skaos,
Hardrive,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Velvet Underground,
Pylon,
Black Bananas,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Yaz,
The Litter,
DJ Sneak,
Nik Kershaw,
Sparks,
Ken Boothe,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Isaac Hayes,
Marmalade,
Letta Mbulu,
Sound Behaviour,
Marc Almond,
Livin' Joy,
Roger Hodgson,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Electric Prunes,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Red Krayola,
Donald Byrd,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Amon Düül,
The Shadows of Knight,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Electric Prunes,
The Seeds,
Bauhaus,
ABC,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
the Bar-Kays,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Pantytec,
Newcleus,
Sällskapet,
Mars,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith.
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.