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 Switzerland and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 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 Subhumans to the dance 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 the Association. All the underground hits.
All Cameo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Graham Central Station record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pylon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Evens,
Todd Rundgren,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Seeds,
Sex Pistols,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Eddi Front,
Unrelated Segments,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Letta Mbulu,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Quando Quango,
Minor Threat,
Von Mondo,
Urselle,
The Gladiators,
Procol Harum,
The Smiths,
Chrome,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Soul II Soul,
The Young Rascals,
Gerry Rafferty,
Gabor Szabo,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Toasters,
Rakim,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Niagra,
Zero Boys,
Johnny Clarke,
The Invisible,
Grey Daturas,
Pagans,
Bobby Byrd,
Neu!,
Silicon Teens,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Barracudas,
Massinfluence,
Eden Ahbez,
Brick,
Bootsy Collins,
The Fugs,
Warsaw,
Moby Grape,
the Bar-Kays,
Minnie Riperton,
The Vogues,
Drexciya,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Fat Boys,
DJ Style,
Young Marble Giants,
Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle.
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.