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 Luxembourg and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 Columbus and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 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 Bill Near to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Shoche. All the underground hits.
All Glenn Branca tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Model 500 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hardrive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joey Negro,
Livin' Joy,
Audionom,
Man Parrish,
Unwound,
Jawbox,
Quantec,
Isaac Hayes,
The Happenings,
Pussy Galore,
Lakeside,
the Normal,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Bronski Beat,
Sun City Girls,
Sister Nancy,
Parry Music,
Bluetip,
Lalo Schifrin,
David Bowie,
The Blues Magoos,
Junior Murvin,
Nation of Ulysses,
Pulsallama,
A Flock of Seagulls,
KRS-One,
John Lydon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Japan,
Monolake,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Scratch Acid,
Jimmy McGriff,
Infiniti,
Janne Schatter,
Television Personalities,
ABC,
R.M.O.,
Bobby Sherman,
Nico,
Main Source,
Spoonie Gee,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Dead Boys,
Outsiders,
Bill Wells,
Andrew Hill,
Monks,
Marc Almond,
Harry Pussy,
Amon Düül,
UT,
The Stooges,
Alice Coltrane,
Lower 48,
Kayak,
Magazine,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.
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.