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 Malta and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Holger Czukay 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 FM Einheit to the disco 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 John Foxx. All the underground hits.
All H. Thieme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gabor Szabo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Toasters,
Dual Sessions,
Grandmaster Flash,
Delta 5,
Joyce Sims,
Basic Channel,
Oblivians,
Ponytail,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Icehouse,
Erykah Badu,
Nico,
Thompson Twins,
China Crisis,
Das Ding,
Nick Fraelich,
The United States of America,
Funky Four + One,
The Young Rascals,
Bluetip,
Echospace,
The Dirtbombs,
Subhumans,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bobbi Humphrey,
DJ Sneak,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Gong,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Flash Fearless,
Dead Boys,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Eric Dolphy,
Bang On A Can,
Maleditus Sound,
Television,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Gabor Szabo,
H. Thieme,
Roy Ayers,
The Black Dice,
Mo-Dettes,
DNA,
Circle Jerks,
Mars,
Oneida,
Severed Heads,
Inner City,
Johnny Clarke,
The Trojans,
Trumans Water,
Rufus Thomas,
Mad Mike,
Letta Mbulu,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
X-102,
Roxy Music,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Red Krayola,
Outsiders, Outsiders, Outsiders, Outsiders.
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.