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 Kosovo and from Delhi.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Prince Buster to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Joe Finger. All the underground hits.
All Erasure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kango’s Stein Massive 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Normal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Motions,
David Bowie,
Patti Smith,
The Litter,
Erasure,
Trumans Water,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
X-101,
Pet Shop Boys,
Robert Görl,
Massinfluence,
Animal Collective,
Talk Talk,
Newcleus,
Marine Girls,
UT,
Average White Band,
The Monochrome Set,
The Music Machine,
Gregory Isaacs,
OOIOO,
The Associates,
The Toasters,
Swell Maps,
the Bar-Kays,
Man Parrish,
Buzzcocks,
Harpers Bizarre,
Sugar Minott,
Ice-T,
John Cale,
Babytalk,
The Walker Brothers,
Mark Hollis,
Schoolly D,
the Germs,
Dave Gahan,
Albert Ayler,
Parry Music,
Scratch Acid,
Simply Red,
Roger Hodgson,
Moebius,
The Leaves,
Niagra,
Gang Gang Dance,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Judy Mowatt,
Intrusion,
Black Pus,
Black Flag,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sun City Girls,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Todd Terry,
Funky Four + One,
Peter and Kerry,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas.
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.