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 Montenegro and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 snare 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 Sparks to the disco 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 Chrome. All the underground hits.
All Tommy Roe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Busters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Adolescents record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eli Mardock,
Desert Stars,
Technova,
Joy Division,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Flipper,
The Invisible,
Jerry's Kids,
the Association,
Delon & Dalcan,
Minny Pops,
The Gap Band,
Public Image Ltd.,
Quantec,
Gang Starr,
John Foxx,
Mark Hollis,
The Trojans,
Accadde A,
Excepter,
The Toasters,
The Index,
Ronan,
Matthew Bourne,
Big Daddy Kane,
Brothers Johnson,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Delta 5,
Magazine,
Wolf Eyes,
Bill Near,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Rhythm & Sound,
Qualms,
Symarip,
The Cowsills,
Wasted Youth,
Jacques Brel,
Danielle Patucci,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Skaos,
MC5,
Sarah Menescal,
Index,
The Fall,
The Velvet Underground,
Pulsallama,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Wake,
Scrapy,
The Buckinghams,
Black Sheep,
Nils Olav,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Liliput,
Black Flag,
Boz Scaggs,
Hasil Adkins,
Amon Düül,
Trumans Water,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
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.