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 Sweden and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 guitar 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 Susan Cadogan to the dance 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 Names. All the underground hits.
All Monks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yellowson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zero Boys,
Kool Moe Dee,
Howard Jones,
Ronnie Foster,
Con Funk Shun,
Organ,
Jerry's Kids,
Dark Day,
kango's stein massive,
LL Cool J,
CMW,
Lindisfarne,
The Human League,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Can,
Juan Atkins,
The Beau Brummels,
Minor Threat,
Judy Mowatt,
Chris & Cosey,
The Birthday Party,
U.S. Maple,
The Cure,
The Gladiators,
The United States of America,
Sun Ra,
JFA,
Morten Harket,
Talk Talk,
John Lydon,
Schoolly D,
The Smoke,
Black Moon,
Barry Ungar,
AZ,
Drive Like Jehu,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Rod Modell,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Stockholm Monsters,
Main Source,
Cal Tjader,
Procol Harum,
Mission of Burma,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Pretty Things,
Gang Green,
Flipper,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Average White Band,
Tears for Fears,
New Age Steppers,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Martian,
Bizarre Inc.,
Donny Hathaway,
Robert Görl,
In Retrospect,
The Star Department,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Metal Thangz,
The Selecter,
Dennis Brown,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.