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 Estonia and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Byron Stingily to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Animal Collective. All the underground hits.
All Roger Hodgson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Patti Smith record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Althea and Donna record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Motions,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lightning Bolt,
Panda Bear,
D'Angelo,
Derrick May,
Sonny Sharrock,
Blake Baxter,
Bronski Beat,
X-Ray Spex,
Ronan,
Sugar Minott,
Soft Cell,
the Human League,
Swans,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Music Machine,
Marine Girls,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Ultravox,
The Young Rascals,
DJ Sneak,
Deakin,
World's Most,
Aural Exciters,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
AZ,
Bobby Byrd,
Lower 48,
Absolute Body Control,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Alarm Clocks,
cv313,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Count Five,
Cameo,
Junior Murvin,
Aaron Thompson,
Nick Fraelich,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lalo Schifrin,
the Sonics,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Carl Craig,
Saccharine Trust,
Charles Mingus,
Sonic Youth,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Eden Ahbez,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Fall,
The Happenings,
Brand Nubian,
The J.B.'s,
Zero Boys,
Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger.
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.