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 Eritrea and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 sitar 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 Rhythm & Sound to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Public Image Ltd. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Foxx record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythm & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Jacques Brel,
Soul II Soul,
Arthur Verocai,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Offenders,
Pet Shop Boys,
Soft Cell,
The Count Five,
Mad Mike,
Kevin Saunderson,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Vainqueur,
New Order,
Monks,
The Flesh Eaters,
Johnny Clarke,
Cluster,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Janne Schatter,
June Days,
Kaleidoscope,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Von Mondo,
John Cale,
Faraquet,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Joe Finger,
Amon Düül,
L. Decosne,
Robert Görl,
Charles Mingus,
The Remains,
Tomorrow,
Ronan,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Detroit Cobras,
Swell Maps,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Mojo Men,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Sex Pistols,
Lalo Schifrin,
Scott Walker,
Khruangbin,
The Monochrome Set,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Pierre Henry,
Brothers Johnson,
Quadrant,
Cybotron,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gastr Del Sol,
Unrelated Segments,
The Martian,
Ituana,
Accadde A,
Hasil Adkins,
T.S.O.L.,
Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly.
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.