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 Zambia and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Eyeless In Gaza to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Organ. All the underground hits.
All Al Stewart tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Accadde A record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Stooges,
The Names,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Standells,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Black Dice,
Motorama,
Q65,
Ice-T,
the Sonics,
Hot Snakes,
The Barracudas,
Rotary Connection,
Deadbeat,
Goldenarms,
The Mojo Men,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Offenders,
CMW,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Television Personalities,
The American Breed,
Skarface,
the Swans,
Danielle Patucci,
Crash Course in Science,
Lou Reed,
Rosa Yemen,
The Evens,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Marshall Jefferson,
Carl Craig,
The Slackers,
Boz Scaggs,
Frankie Knuckles,
Panda Bear,
Fear,
Black Flag,
Gregory Isaacs,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
ABC,
Reagan Youth,
Ken Boothe,
The New Christs,
Morten Harket,
This Heat,
Model 500,
The Misunderstood,
the Normal,
Guru Guru,
Anthony Braxton,
Monks,
The Tremeloes,
Main Source,
Mantronix,
Lungfish,
The Skatalites,
Second Layer,
Dark Day,
Howard Jones, Howard Jones, Howard Jones, Howard Jones.
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.