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 Spain and from Paris.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the snare 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 Kayak to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Durutti Column. All the underground hits.
All Faust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bluetip 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jacques Brel,
Colin Newman,
Johnny Clarke,
Jandek,
The Kinks,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Jeff Mills,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
kango's stein massive,
Tears for Fears,
Dennis Brown,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Aaron Thompson,
Q and Not U,
Black Flag,
The Wake,
Nirvana,
Section 25,
Spoonie Gee,
Black Moon,
Television Personalities,
OOIOO,
Mission of Burma,
Bronski Beat,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Albert Ayler,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Junior Murvin,
Joe Smooth,
Vladislav Delay,
The Fire Engines,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nico,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
La Düsseldorf,
Stereo Dub,
The Slits,
Gregory Isaacs,
Bill Near,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
the Swans,
Von Mondo,
The Durutti Column,
Soft Cell,
Franke,
Maleditus Sound,
Malaria!,
David McCallum,
The United States of America,
ABBA,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Dead C,
The Standells,
Ituana,
John Cale,
Ossler,
Darondo, Darondo, Darondo, Darondo.
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.