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 Malaysia and from Philadelphia.
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 Lille and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Flipper to the dance 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 Bootsy Collins. All the underground hits.
All Nick Fraelich tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fela Kuti record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
Aloha Tigers,
the Bar-Kays,
London Community Gospel Choir,
X-102,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Brand Nubian,
the Human League,
Black Flag,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Clear Light,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Bluetip,
The Martian,
Eli Mardock,
The Human League,
Joe Finger,
The Skatalites,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Shuggie Otis,
Avey Tare,
The Velvet Underground,
John Lydon,
Camouflage,
Sam Rivers,
Livin' Joy,
Robert Hood,
Q and Not U,
JFA,
The Litter,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Flesh Eaters,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Cecil Taylor,
Stockholm Monsters,
Crispy Ambulance,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Wake,
Electric Prunes,
Underground Resistance,
Bizarre Inc.,
Parry Music,
The Cramps,
The Cure,
Pantytec,
Ice-T,
Audionom,
Icehouse,
Schoolly D,
Public Enemy,
Matthew Bourne,
Zapp,
Robert Görl,
Camberwell Now,
Freddie Wadling,
Lakeside,
The Move,
Surgeon,
The Busters,
Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths.
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.