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 Algeria and from Glasgow.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 spring reverb 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 Massinfluence to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Real Kids. All the underground hits.
All Man Parrish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lungfish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Altered Images,
Easy Going,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sonic Youth,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Nirvana,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Tommy Roe,
Todd Rundgren,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Eric B and Rakim,
Brass Construction,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Victims,
The Invisible,
Eurythmics,
Circle Jerks,
Heaven 17,
H. Thieme,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sarah Menescal,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kaleidoscope,
Pole,
Dawn Penn,
Von Mondo,
Infiniti,
Flipper,
The Names,
Unrelated Segments,
the Normal,
Joyce Sims,
Alphaville,
The Gun Club,
Kas Product,
Desert Stars,
The Doors,
Spandau Ballet,
Public Image Ltd.,
cv313,
Dead Boys,
The Dirtbombs,
Crispian St. Peters,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Black Bananas,
Schoolly D,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Theoretical Girls,
Faraquet,
Lalo Schifrin,
Sound Behaviour,
Gang Starr,
Underground Resistance,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
AZ,
David Bowie,
The Leaves,
Sight & Sound,
Maleditus Sound,
Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel.
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.