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 Nauru and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Vainqueur to the disco 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 Boz Scaggs. All the underground hits.
All Arthur Verocai tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smiths record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fire Engines record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fat Boys,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Rhythm & Sound,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Tommy Roe,
Alison Limerick,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Donny Hathaway,
Minutemen,
Freddie Wadling,
June Days,
The Kinks,
Susan Cadogan,
The Fugs,
The Selecter,
Babytalk,
Qualms,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Fuzztones,
48th St. Collective,
Slick Rick,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Quantec,
Eden Ahbez,
Saccharine Trust,
Crispy Ambulance,
Fad Gadget,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Albert Ayler,
Simply Red,
Visage,
Nas,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Standells,
The Grass Roots,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jeff Mills,
Aloha Tigers,
Lightning Bolt,
Bobby Womack,
Rufus Thomas,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Searchers,
The Knickerbockers,
R.M.O.,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Flash Fearless,
The Beau Brummels,
Mad Mike,
The Doors,
The Music Machine,
Drive Like Jehu,
Bauhaus,
Nik Kershaw,
Unwound,
Accadde A,
Dead Boys,
Basic Channel,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Excepter,
The Invisible,
Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock.
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.