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 South Africa and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Robert Palmer 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 Radiopuhelimet to the rap 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 The United States of America. All the underground hits.
All Hasil Adkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Section 25 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Cale,
The United States of America,
Josef K,
Godley & Creme,
Joe Smooth,
Roy Ayers,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Eli Mardock,
Davy DMX,
Howard Jones,
Erykah Badu,
Massinfluence,
The Modern Lovers,
Stockholm Monsters,
Japan,
Groovy Waters,
Hardrive,
The American Breed,
Dark Day,
Mo-Dettes,
Boredoms,
Outsiders,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Slits,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
a-ha,
The Sound,
Steve Hackett,
The Young Rascals,
Hasil Adkins,
Judy Mowatt,
Brothers Johnson,
Bobby Sherman,
10cc,
Bizarre Inc.,
Girls At Our Best!,
Black Sheep,
Zero Boys,
Half Japanese,
Colin Newman,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Max Romeo,
Soulsonic Force,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Neon Judgement,
In Retrospect,
Monolake,
Hot Snakes,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
U.S. Maple,
Ossler,
Organ,
Lou Reed,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Nirvana,
Easy Going,
Frankie Knuckles,
Nick Fraelich,
The Misunderstood,
D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo.
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.