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 Greece and from Glasgow.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Delta 5 to the jazz 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 The Peanut Butter Conspiracy. All the underground hits.
All LL Cool J tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sällskapet 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glambeats Corp.,
Das Ding,
Skarface,
Excepter,
Colin Newman,
Bill Near,
Barrington Levy,
Sam Rivers,
R.M.O.,
Television Personalities,
Gichy Dan,
The Leaves,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
K-Klass,
The Offenders,
The Motions,
Lower 48,
Jeff Lynne,
Kas Product,
Graham Central Station,
Pantytec,
Grauzone,
Bobby Womack,
Cheater Slicks,
Gregory Isaacs,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Doobie Brothers,
Royal Trux,
Curtis Mayfield,
Joe Smooth,
Stiv Bators,
The Walker Brothers,
Radio Birdman,
Make Up,
Mark Hollis,
Flash Fearless,
Visage,
Black Bananas,
Byron Stingily,
Aloha Tigers,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lalo Schifrin,
Eric Dolphy,
Alison Limerick,
The Skatalites,
Rotary Connection,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Cluster,
Maleditus Sound,
The Searchers,
Cybotron,
Severed Heads,
AZ,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Lucky Dragons,
Juan Atkins,
Laurel Aitken,
Agitation Free,
The Mummies,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Dirtbombs,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Soft Machine,
Flipper, Flipper, Flipper, Flipper.
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.