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 Argentina and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Hashim to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 One Last Wish. All the underground hits.
All The Detroit Cobras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Von Mondo 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Zeros,
Flash Fearless,
Oblivians,
Dennis Brown,
The Litter,
Pierre Henry,
Andrew Hill,
Black Pus,
Johnny Osbourne,
Kerrie Biddell,
Alice Coltrane,
The Wake,
The United States of America,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Electric Prunes,
Theoretical Girls,
Isaac Hayes,
Dave Gahan,
Y Pants,
Quadrant,
cv313,
Aswad,
ABC,
Don Cherry,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Dark Day,
Q and Not U,
Drive Like Jehu,
Laurel Aitken,
The Electric Prunes,
New York Dolls,
Lou Christie,
Howard Jones,
Suburban Knight,
Moss Icon,
Max Romeo,
The Leaves,
Radio Birdman,
The Neon Judgement,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Standells,
Henry Cow,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Tres Demented,
Minnie Riperton,
Ituana,
Depeche Mode,
Scrapy,
Neu!,
Soul Sonic Force,
Audionom,
The New Christs,
Buzzcocks,
The Mojo Men,
Porter Ricks,
The Red Krayola,
Sonic Youth,
Alton Ellis,
Jeff Mills,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Smoke,
Second Layer,
Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies.
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.