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 Lithuania and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 guitar 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 OOIOO to the jazz 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 Young Marble Giants. All the underground hits.
All Yellowson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stereo Dub record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skarface,
Amon Düül II,
Niagra,
Alison Limerick,
Kenny Larkin,
Country Teasers,
Swans,
Roxette,
Intrusion,
R.M.O.,
Symarip,
Model 500,
Pet Shop Boys,
Make Up,
Avey Tare,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Althea and Donna,
Scratch Acid,
Godley & Creme,
Man Parrish,
The Moleskins,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lightning Bolt,
The Martian,
Yazoo,
Aural Exciters,
Absolute Body Control,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Black Flag,
Josef K,
John Cale,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
One Last Wish,
Tears for Fears,
FM Einheit,
Skriet,
Deakin,
Pantaleimon,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Danielle Patucci,
Kevin Saunderson,
Smog,
Procol Harum,
Man Eating Sloth,
Gang Green,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
World's Most,
These Immortal Souls,
Little Man,
Porter Ricks,
Ronnie Foster,
Yaz,
Barbara Tucker,
Monks,
Letta Mbulu,
Bill Near,
Bauhaus,
Inner City,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy.
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.