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 Argentina and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 synthesizer 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 Quantec to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Jimmy McGriff. All the underground hits.
All The Invisible tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Half Japanese record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Accadde A record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aswad,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Scratch Acid,
The Move,
Television Personalities,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Pretty Things,
Animal Collective,
Tom Boy,
the Germs,
The Fugs,
Bronski Beat,
Infiniti,
The Alarm Clocks,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Walker Brothers,
The Fall,
Deakin,
Alice Coltrane,
Cameo,
Qualms,
Bizarre Inc.,
Silicon Teens,
Derrick May,
Visage,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Youth Brigade,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Toni Rubio,
Au Pairs,
Fela Kuti,
Henry Cow,
FM Einheit,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Steve Hackett,
Black Sheep,
The Victims,
Harpers Bizarre,
Neu!,
Rites of Spring,
EPMD,
The Cramps,
Trumans Water,
Sight & Sound,
The Divine Comedy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ten City,
The Happenings,
The Flesh Eaters,
Ossler,
Bobby Womack,
Peter and Kerry,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Leaves,
Gregory Isaacs,
Iggy Pop,
Deepchord,
T.S.O.L.,
Barry Ungar,
Reuben Wilson,
Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh.
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.