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 San Marino and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the organ 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 Marine Girls to the electroclash 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 The Offenders. All the underground hits.
All Oppenheimer Analysis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiopuhelimet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shuggie Otis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Little Man,
Blancmange,
The Doobie Brothers,
David Axelrod,
Lower 48,
Traffic Nightmare,
Marmalade,
Kevin Saunderson,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Dark Day,
Deepchord,
Fad Gadget,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jawbox,
Goldenarms,
Scratch Acid,
The Vogues,
Funkadelic,
Black Sheep,
Tom Boy,
Camberwell Now,
Au Pairs,
Niagra,
Half Japanese,
Grey Daturas,
New Order,
10cc,
Althea and Donna,
The Young Rascals,
Fear,
B.T. Express,
FM Einheit,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
the Sonics,
The Move,
Sugar Minott,
The Gap Band,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Leaves,
Tommy Roe,
The Cure,
Dead Boys,
Wally Richardson,
Sun City Girls,
Eyeless In Gaza,
David Bowie,
The Raincoats,
Outsiders,
Joey Negro,
Albert Ayler,
Panda Bear,
Theoretical Girls,
Mark Hollis,
Marshall Jefferson,
Rapeman,
The Skatalites,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Blossom Toes,
Stiv Bators,
Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone.
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.