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 Turkey and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 rhodes 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 The Last Poets to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Easy Going. All the underground hits.
All Saccharine Trust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Los Fastidios record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Danielle Patucci,
Radiopuhelimet,
Cameo,
Panda Bear,
John Foxx,
Heaven 17,
Rufus Thomas,
One Last Wish,
Underground Resistance,
Dave Gahan,
Radio Birdman,
Donny Hathaway,
The Count Five,
Visage,
OOIOO,
Maurizio,
Little Man,
Eric Dolphy,
Robert Hood,
Nick Fraelich,
Kayak,
Ronan,
The Monks,
Sexual Harrassment,
Johnny Clarke,
The Standells,
Bush Tetras,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Khruangbin,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Brothers Johnson,
Stiv Bators,
Zapp,
Monolake,
The Shadows of Knight,
Angry Samoans,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Make Up,
Blancmange,
Donald Byrd,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Bill Near,
Gang Starr,
Sparks,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Terrestrial Tones,
Magazine,
Henry Cow,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
China Crisis,
Derrick Morgan,
Scrapy,
Marine Girls,
Silicon Teens,
Blake Baxter,
The Seeds,
Black Bananas,
The Smiths,
Eric Copeland,
The Leaves,
Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys.
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.