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 Liechtenstein and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Toronto.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Cal Tjader to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Mighty Diamonds. All the underground hits.
All Rufus Thomas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maurizio 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Laurel Aitken record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Move,
New Order,
DJ Sneak,
Michelle Simonal,
The Cramps,
Vladislav Delay,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Sound,
The Happenings,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Slick Rick,
Radiohead,
Lalo Schifrin,
Gastr Del Sol,
Sound Behaviour,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nico,
X-101,
Royal Trux,
Erasure,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Lee Hazlewood,
Drexciya,
Todd Terry,
David McCallum,
Black Flag,
Procol Harum,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Prince Buster,
Alice Coltrane,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Shadows of Knight,
Anthony Braxton,
Hashim,
Franke,
Sixth Finger,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Maleditus Sound,
Outsiders,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Lower 48,
Janne Schatter,
The Red Krayola,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Monochrome Set,
Dawn Penn,
Alison Limerick,
Von Mondo,
The Angels of Light,
Dennis Brown,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Howard Jones,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Organ,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Mantronix,
Duran Duran,
Barry Ungar,
Bronski Beat,
The Velvet Underground,
Moby Grape,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.