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 Marshall Islands and from Seoul.
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 Accra and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the theremin 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 Television Personalities to the grunge 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 Graham Central Station. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Louis and Bebe Barron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a It's A Beautiful Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sunsets and Hearts,
Panda Bear,
Erasure,
The Pop Group,
The Tremeloes,
Babytalk,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Soft Machine,
The Fall,
Altered Images,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lalann,
X-Ray Spex,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The J.B.'s,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Ludus,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Moss Icon,
Pole,
Brothers Johnson,
Theoretical Girls,
R.M.O.,
Bobby Sherman,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Al Stewart,
Dark Day,
Rod Modell,
Excepter,
Shuggie Otis,
Angry Samoans,
Main Source,
MC5,
Radiohead,
Hasil Adkins,
Rhythm & Sound,
Mark Hollis,
Second Layer,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Marvin Gaye,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Little Man,
Crash Course in Science,
Ornette Coleman,
Tom Boy,
K-Klass,
The Saints,
Groovy Waters,
Can,
Tommy Roe,
Easy Going,
Robert Görl,
The Residents,
Sonny Sharrock,
Curtis Mayfield,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Blues Magoos,
The Slackers,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Deepchord,
Spoonie Gee,
Althea and Donna,
Faraquet,
Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young.
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.