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 Madagascar and from Taipei.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Sad Lovers and Giants. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ken Boothe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Laurel Aitken record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultra Naté,
The Victims,
Alice Coltrane,
Maurizio,
Sound Behaviour,
Marc Almond,
Arthur Verocai,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pulsallama,
Nik Kershaw,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Liliput,
Dark Day,
The Smoke,
Rod Modell,
Quando Quango,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Unrelated Segments,
Reuben Wilson,
Todd Rundgren,
The Golliwogs,
Amon Düül,
Gang Green,
Little Man,
Danielle Patucci,
The Leaves,
The Dirtbombs,
Outsiders,
DJ Style,
AZ,
Flipper,
Derrick May,
Matthew Bourne,
Amon Düül II,
the Association,
The Sonics,
World's Most,
Rites of Spring,
Brick,
Sugar Minott,
Livin' Joy,
Q65,
Boogie Down Productions,
Mantronix,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Au Pairs,
Spoonie Gee,
KRS-One,
Loose Ends,
Faraquet,
The Fugs,
Archie Shepp,
New Order,
Eric B and Rakim,
Reagan Youth,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bobby Womack,
X-101,
The Saints, The Saints, The Saints, The Saints.
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.