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 Denmark and from Spokane.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Josef K to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Sixth Finger. All the underground hits.
All Gian Franco Pienzio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lafayette Afro Rock Band 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rekid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Idris Muhammad,
Bang On A Can,
Lightning Bolt,
Flipper,
Organ,
Ultimate Spinach,
JFA,
The Fall,
Thee Headcoats,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
E-Dancer,
kango's stein massive,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Selecter,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Leaves,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Litter,
Gichy Dan,
Minutemen,
New Order,
Excepter,
Jacob Miller,
Kevin Saunderson,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Juan Atkins,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Hashim,
Swans,
Infiniti,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Faraquet,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Judy Mowatt,
Roxette,
Agent Orange,
Pulsallama,
The Remains,
Reagan Youth,
The Gap Band,
Young Marble Giants,
Essential Logic,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Guru Guru,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Blake Baxter,
Lindisfarne,
Dave Gahan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Godley & Creme,
Stiv Bators,
Lyres,
The Angels of Light,
Franke,
Ken Boothe,
Das Ding,
Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys.
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.