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 Bolivia and from Johannesburg.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Portland.
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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the oboe 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 Yaz to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Louis and Bebe Barron. All the underground hits.
All Sugar Minott tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Grass Roots record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Slits,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Neon Judgement,
The Count Five,
The Barracudas,
Minor Threat,
Black Sheep,
Junior Murvin,
Idris Muhammad,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sarah Menescal,
Hoover,
H. Thieme,
Iggy Pop,
Section 25,
Altered Images,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Associates,
The Happenings,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Sonics,
Mark Hollis,
Toni Rubio,
The Durutti Column,
Lee Hazlewood,
Duran Duran,
Girls At Our Best!,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Kayak,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Soul II Soul,
Throbbing Gristle,
Sixth Finger,
Cymande,
Fela Kuti,
Mars,
John Cale,
Can,
The Blackbyrds,
New Order,
Amon Düül,
Sound Behaviour,
Ituana,
B.T. Express,
Kerri Chandler,
David Bowie,
Mandrill,
Half Japanese,
Arcadia,
Lightning Bolt,
Al Stewart,
Zero Boys,
Kenny Larkin,
Kaleidoscope,
Wasted Youth,
Ponytail,
Los Fastidios,
Subhumans,
The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band.
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.