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 Chile and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Index to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson. All the underground hits.
All The Raincoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every AZ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Johnny Clarke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zero Boys,
Eden Ahbez,
Bill Near,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Malaria!,
Josef K,
DNA,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Joe Smooth,
The Martian,
The Buckinghams,
Freddie Wadling,
The Real Kids,
Half Japanese,
The Cure,
The Red Krayola,
Public Image Ltd.,
Technova,
Gang of Four,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Duran Duran,
Intrusion,
Joy Division,
The Slackers,
Howard Jones,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Metal Thangz,
Drive Like Jehu,
Liliput,
Andrew Hill,
The Monks,
Babytalk,
The Busters,
In Retrospect,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Barracudas,
Scientists,
Los Fastidios,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Zeros,
Pet Shop Boys,
The New Christs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Peter & Gordon,
Reagan Youth,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Electric Prunes,
Unrelated Segments,
ABC,
Althea and Donna,
John Lydon,
The United States of America,
Davy DMX,
Roy Ayers,
Faust,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Kerrie Biddell,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Colin Newman,
Gong,
the Sonics,
Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode.
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.