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 Mongolia and from Salvador.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo to the rock 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 Eurythmics. All the underground hits.
All Marvin Gaye tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cymande record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lightning Bolt,
Cecil Taylor,
the Normal,
The Happenings,
T.S.O.L.,
Silicon Teens,
Infiniti,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Neil Young,
Skaos,
Pole,
The Residents,
ABBA,
Absolute Body Control,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lebanon Hanover,
Public Image Ltd.,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Symarip,
Television,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Smoke,
Saccharine Trust,
Oneida,
Theoretical Girls,
David Bowie,
Joe Smooth,
Scott Walker,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Pretty Things,
The Invisible,
Soft Machine,
Pere Ubu,
Drexciya,
Andrew Hill,
Index,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Mary Jane Girls,
Reuben Wilson,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ludus,
Lou Reed,
The Mummies,
Toni Rubio,
John Holt,
Thompson Twins,
The Sonics,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Pagans,
The Leaves,
UT,
Fear,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Fire Engines,
Monolake,
Quantec,
Juan Atkins,
Dennis Brown,
Magma,
Eric Dolphy,
Essential Logic,
LL Cool J,
Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk.
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.