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 Botswana and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 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 Mr. Review to the rock 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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All Nik Kershaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Mills 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Franke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Searchers,
Cameo,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Shoche,
Peter & Gordon,
Zapp,
Minnie Riperton,
Unwound,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Gladiators,
Mars,
Warsaw,
The Moody Blues,
Simply Red,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Dorothy Ashby,
Eurythmics,
Cheater Slicks,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Nation of Ulysses,
Minny Pops,
Half Japanese,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Country Teasers,
DJ Sneak,
The Raincoats,
Neil Young,
Slave,
Mary Jane Girls,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Stetsasonic,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Stockholm Monsters,
Pere Ubu,
Public Enemy,
the Soft Cell,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Barracudas,
Unrelated Segments,
Henry Cow,
The Saints,
Duran Duran,
K-Klass,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Joe Smooth,
New Order,
Au Pairs,
The Seeds,
Scrapy,
Can,
Roger Hodgson,
Interpol,
Brick,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Neu!,
Masters at Work,
Soul II Soul,
Lee Hazlewood,
New Age Steppers,
The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy.
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.