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 Iceland and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 808 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 Sparks to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Oblivians. All the underground hits.
All Bill Near tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dark Day 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed,
Tommy Roe,
The Birthday Party,
Kaleidoscope,
Andrew Hill,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Leaves,
Brick,
The Offenders,
Roxette,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gang Gang Dance,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Rites of Spring,
Parry Music,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
In Retrospect,
Sparks,
The Move,
Barbara Tucker,
Alphaville,
Anakelly,
Animal Collective,
New Order,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Darondo,
Kerri Chandler,
Cal Tjader,
Eric Dolphy,
Hoover,
Amon Düül II,
The Searchers,
Tears for Fears,
The Five Americans,
Rufus Thomas,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Can,
Wasted Youth,
Excepter,
The Smoke,
Gang Starr,
David McCallum,
Dennis Brown,
Pantaleimon,
Maleditus Sound,
The J.B.'s,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Goldenarms,
The Knickerbockers,
The Fortunes,
Aural Exciters,
Groovy Waters,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Mission of Burma,
Ronnie Foster,
Soulsonic Force,
The Misunderstood,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Fire Engines,
Guru Guru,
Technova, Technova, Technova, Technova.
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.