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 Senegal 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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Nick Fraelich to the funk 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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scientists record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blossom Toes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Urselle,
Gregory Isaacs,
Cymande,
The Five Americans,
Crispian St. Peters,
Bauhaus,
The Misunderstood,
Altered Images,
Lou Reed,
The Cure,
Joey Negro,
One Last Wish,
Gang of Four,
Schoolly D,
Glenn Branca,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Shuggie Otis,
Andrew Hill,
Jandek,
R.M.O.,
Aloha Tigers,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Chrome,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Shoche,
Skaos,
The Moody Blues,
Supertramp,
Buzzcocks,
The Offenders,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Man Parrish,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Franke,
Joe Finger,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Alison Limerick,
David Axelrod,
Bootsy Collins,
June Days,
Jeru the Damaja,
Yusef Lateef,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
A Certain Ratio,
Jeff Mills,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Fela Kuti,
The Seeds,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
JFA,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Godley & Creme,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ludus,
The Fuzztones,
The Associates,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Big Daddy Kane,
Robert Görl,
Wally Richardson,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs.
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.