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 Bahrain and from Shanghai.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Aural Exciters to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Sun Ra Arkestra. All the underground hits.
All Babytalk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gichy Dan 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Names record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Symarip,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Hashim,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Audionom,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Japan,
The Durutti Column,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Saccharine Trust,
Juan Atkins,
Rites of Spring,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Bill Wells,
Joyce Sims,
Rakim,
The Velvet Underground,
Fad Gadget,
Grandmaster Flash,
The New Christs,
DJ Sneak,
Kevin Saunderson,
X-102,
Nation of Ulysses,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Yaz,
Guru Guru,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Kenny Larkin,
Crash Course in Science,
Kayak,
Pierre Henry,
Sound Behaviour,
The Music Machine,
The Seeds,
Metal Thangz,
Chris Corsano,
Main Source,
T.S.O.L.,
Scrapy,
Freddie Wadling,
Intrusion,
Ludus,
Eric Copeland,
Kaleidoscope,
Boogie Down Productions,
Rhythm & Sound,
Loose Ends,
Terrestrial Tones,
Idris Muhammad,
Leonard Cohen,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Country Joe & The Fish,
the Bar-Kays,
Jacob Miller,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Panda Bear,
The Red Krayola,
Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo.
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.