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 Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Lou Reed 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 Bill Near to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Gil Scott Heron. All the underground hits.
All The Gun Club tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Bananas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aloha Tigers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gap Band,
Eden Ahbez,
Q and Not U,
The Buckinghams,
Qualms,
Marcia Griffiths,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Audionom,
Albert Ayler,
Easy Going,
Technova,
Janne Schatter,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Zero Boys,
Country Teasers,
Amon Düül,
Dennis Brown,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Dirtbombs,
Susan Cadogan,
Popol Vuh,
June of 44,
Ornette Coleman,
Soul II Soul,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Johnny Clarke,
This Heat,
Niagra,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Cramps,
Livin' Joy,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Man Eating Sloth,
Loose Ends,
Crash Course in Science,
Hoover,
Fela Kuti,
Cal Tjader,
Pere Ubu,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Young Rascals,
Magazine,
Rhythm & Sound,
Severed Heads,
Althea and Donna,
Isaac Hayes,
Arcadia,
Massinfluence,
The Vogues,
Patti Smith,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Television,
Alice Coltrane,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Eli Mardock,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Unrelated Segments,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.