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 Kenya and from Mumbai.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 oboe 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 JFA to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Panda Bear record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mo-Dettes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Lydon,
Shuggie Otis,
Funkadelic,
The Fire Engines,
Essential Logic,
EPMD,
The Toasters,
Ultra Naté,
Cal Tjader,
Monolake,
The Skatalites,
Aaron Thompson,
The Tremeloes,
The Pop Group,
Au Pairs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Misunderstood,
Mark Hollis,
Deakin,
Black Bananas,
Average White Band,
Angry Samoans,
Arthur Verocai,
Girls At Our Best!,
the Soft Cell,
E-Dancer,
The Evens,
The Smoke,
the Swans,
Malaria!,
Accadde A,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Barbara Tucker,
Warren Ellis,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Popol Vuh,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Mandrill,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Nation of Ulysses,
June of 44,
The Mojo Men,
Jeff Lynne,
Minny Pops,
Motorama,
Matthew Bourne,
The Electric Prunes,
Sparks,
ABC,
Gil Scott Heron,
Schoolly D,
Michelle Simonal,
MDC,
Heaven 17,
Soulsonic Force,
Marine Girls,
Yazoo,
Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians.
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.