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 Andorra and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Agitation Free to the rock 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 D'Angelo. All the underground hits.
All Camberwell Now tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Godley & Creme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Little Man record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
Duran Duran,
Lower 48,
Alton Ellis,
F. McDonald,
Mantronix,
Sister Nancy,
Todd Terry,
ABBA,
Shoche,
The Sound,
Rhythm & Sound,
Zapp,
Black Flag,
Hot Snakes,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Juan Atkins,
The Electric Prunes,
Siglo XX,
The Velvet Underground,
Minny Pops,
The Buckinghams,
Kerrie Biddell,
Kayak,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Isaac Hayes,
Peter & Gordon,
Darondo,
Lou Christie,
The Motions,
Patti Smith,
The Vogues,
The Gun Club,
Rotary Connection,
Deadbeat,
The Pretty Things,
Model 500,
The Zeros,
Erykah Badu,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Residents,
Magma,
Althea and Donna,
The Standells,
Mad Mike,
Gang Green,
The Monochrome Set,
Zero Boys,
Lucky Dragons,
The Techniques,
Whodini,
Khruangbin,
Depeche Mode,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Slits,
Dennis Brown,
The Gladiators,
Sällskapet,
Barrington Levy,
Inner City,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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.