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 Azerbaijan and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Bologna.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Motorama to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Japan. All the underground hits.
All Kings Of Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Golliwogs 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ornette Coleman,
ABBA,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Misunderstood,
Michelle Simonal,
UT,
Accadde A,
Clear Light,
Pet Shop Boys,
Thompson Twins,
Neu!,
Buzzcocks,
The Kinks,
Moebius,
Bobby Womack,
The Victims,
Wally Richardson,
Moss Icon,
Spandau Ballet,
Amazonics,
Tres Demented,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Gil Scott Heron,
Mr. Review,
Rekid,
Excepter,
La Düsseldorf,
Q65,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Black Pus,
Glenn Branca,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lungfish,
Section 25,
AZ,
Stockholm Monsters,
Judy Mowatt,
Pharoah Sanders,
John Holt,
The Raincoats,
Eden Ahbez,
Adolescents,
Piero Umiliani,
Angry Samoans,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Litter,
Blancmange,
Cymande,
F. McDonald,
Subhumans,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bush Tetras,
Max Romeo,
48th St. Collective,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Skatalites,
The Gun Club,
Eli Mardock,
Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments.
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.