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 Serbia and from Tokyo.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Rhythim Is Rhythim 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 Swell Maps. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers Ubiquity tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Young Rascals record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Flock of Seagulls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flipper,
The Birthday Party,
Amon Düül,
Nas,
Easy Going,
Ultravox,
LL Cool J,
Colin Newman,
Cymande,
Aloha Tigers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bobby Byrd,
The Dead C,
Q and Not U,
Freddie Wadling,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Martian,
AZ,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ornette Coleman,
Funky Four + One,
Blossom Toes,
David McCallum,
Ohio Players,
The Alarm Clocks,
Patti Smith,
Jimmy McGriff,
Jawbox,
Magazine,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Neu!,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
This Heat,
Minor Threat,
Essential Logic,
10cc,
Chris Corsano,
Outsiders,
Zero Boys,
Neil Young,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Pharoah Sanders,
Fugazi,
Shuggie Otis,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lalo Schifrin,
Flash Fearless,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Oblivians,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Darondo,
Man Eating Sloth,
Eric B and Rakim,
Rites of Spring,
Unrelated Segments,
Sparks,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre.
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.