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 Mexico and from Taipei.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the organ 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 Beasts of Bourbon to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All Scrapy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Adolescents 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Evens,
Country Teasers,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Martian,
Whodini,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Derrick Morgan,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
John Cale,
James White and The Blacks,
Alton Ellis,
Black Sheep,
Bill Wells,
Moss Icon,
Cymande,
Steve Hackett,
10cc,
The Gun Club,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Zeros,
Panda Bear,
Sexual Harrassment,
Delta 5,
The Cowsills,
Unrelated Segments,
X-101,
Shuggie Otis,
Easy Going,
the Fania All-Stars,
Blossom Toes,
Marshall Jefferson,
a-ha,
Michelle Simonal,
Anthony Braxton,
Slick Rick,
Clear Light,
Marine Girls,
the Soft Cell,
Supertramp,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Erasure,
The Modern Lovers,
The Dead C,
Ponytail,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Eric Dolphy,
Yazoo,
E-Dancer,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Royal Trux,
Con Funk Shun,
Letta Mbulu,
Depeche Mode,
Fear,
KRS-One,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Girls At Our Best!,
John Holt,
Dave Gahan,
Excepter,
PIL,
The Pretty Things,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.