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 Palau and from Glasgow.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the snare 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 The Motions to the funk 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 Sun Ra. All the underground hits.
All Morten Harket tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sister Nancy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Foxx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eli Mardock,
Crime,
MDC,
Susan Cadogan,
Massinfluence,
Mission of Burma,
Kenny Larkin,
Gregory Isaacs,
Wally Richardson,
The Happenings,
The Mummies,
The Martian,
The Busters,
Alton Ellis,
Donald Byrd,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Kevin Saunderson,
Duran Duran,
Man Eating Sloth,
Ultravox,
Rotary Connection,
The Skatalites,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Rapeman,
The Monks,
New York Dolls,
Negative Approach,
Jeff Mills,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lucky Dragons,
Joyce Sims,
Camouflage,
Davy DMX,
London Community Gospel Choir,
the Association,
The Index,
Tubeway Army,
Young Marble Giants,
The Associates,
Gang Starr,
Lower 48,
The Divine Comedy,
Thee Headcoats,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
L. Decosne,
Gang Green,
Black Pus,
A Certain Ratio,
The J.B.'s,
Peter and Kerry,
Black Sheep,
Cameo,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Pet Shop Boys,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Circle Jerks,
Gang of Four,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Crispy Ambulance,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Cheater Slicks,
Dawn Penn,
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen.
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.