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 Guinea and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 organ 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 Echo & the Bunnymen to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Joy Division. All the underground hits.
All Newcleus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bizarre Inc. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sugar Minott record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wolf Eyes,
The Associates,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Al Stewart,
One Last Wish,
Average White Band,
Ponytail,
Reagan Youth,
The Wake,
Zero Boys,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Lower 48,
Howard Jones,
Albert Ayler,
Audionom,
Thompson Twins,
Pagans,
Rosa Yemen,
Terrestrial Tones,
Vladislav Delay,
The Move,
Sarah Menescal,
The Blackbyrds,
Public Enemy,
Newcleus,
Rufus Thomas,
Q65,
KRS-One,
Jacques Brel,
Adolescents,
Massinfluence,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Funky Four + One,
Erykah Badu,
Shuggie Otis,
Pere Ubu,
Gerry Rafferty,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Half Japanese,
Bill Near,
Gil Scott Heron,
cv313,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Section 25,
Tubeway Army,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Junior Murvin,
Gastr Del Sol,
Judy Mowatt,
Flamin' Groovies,
Lalo Schifrin,
Tomorrow,
Jawbox,
Lightning Bolt,
Rotary Connection,
MC5,
Roy Ayers,
Idris Muhammad,
The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers.
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.