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 Togo and from Milan.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 spring reverb 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 Radiopuhelimet 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 Ronan. All the underground hits.
All The Velvet Underground tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lonnie Liston Smith record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronnie Foster,
Bluetip,
Jawbox,
Kurtis Blow,
Mantronix,
Negative Approach,
Alice Coltrane,
Simply Red,
Black Pus,
Alton Ellis,
Brothers Johnson,
the Sonics,
The Fugs,
Amazonics,
Bizarre Inc.,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Max Romeo,
Scion,
Boredoms,
David Axelrod,
Qualms,
Roy Ayers,
Basic Channel,
The Velvet Underground,
Aloha Tigers,
Heaven 17,
Pantytec,
Wasted Youth,
Moebius,
The Last Poets,
Jeru the Damaja,
Reagan Youth,
The Mummies,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bronski Beat,
The Count Five,
The Barracudas,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Walker Brothers,
Tim Buckley,
Main Source,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Young Rascals,
The Angels of Light,
FM Einheit,
Lalann,
Das Ding,
Groovy Waters,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Funky Four + One,
T.S.O.L.,
Janne Schatter,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Anakelly,
Chris & Cosey,
The Smiths,
X-101,
Can,
Quadrant,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.
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.