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 Nicaragua and from Lyon.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 FM Einheit to the grunge 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 Divine Comedy. All the underground hits.
All Tom Boy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Youth Brigade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moss Icon,
Eric Dolphy,
A Certain Ratio,
Jandek,
The Star Department,
Crash Course in Science,
The Doors,
Lyres,
Bobby Womack,
Chris Corsano,
The Shadows of Knight,
Unwound,
the Slits,
Andrew Hill,
Circle Jerks,
Fluxion,
Mandrill,
Deakin,
ABBA,
Angry Samoans,
CMW,
Sex Pistols,
Ossler,
Stockholm Monsters,
Lindisfarne,
Dual Sessions,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Drexciya,
David Bowie,
Cal Tjader,
Ronan,
Steve Hackett,
Ludus,
ABC,
Qualms,
The Black Dice,
The Busters,
Youth Brigade,
Excepter,
Pussy Galore,
Cybotron,
Quantec,
Swell Maps,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Toasters,
The Angels of Light,
The Neon Judgement,
Derrick Morgan,
Tomorrow,
The Kinks,
The Buckinghams,
The Velvet Underground,
Donald Byrd,
Yaz,
MDC,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Schoolly D,
The Happenings,
Crispy Ambulance, Crispy Ambulance, Crispy Ambulance, Crispy Ambulance.
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.