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 Kosovo and from Edmonton.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Zapp to the electroclash 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 Johnny Clarke. All the underground hits.
All Davy DMX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nico record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Monochrome Set,
K-Klass,
Cybotron,
Dorothy Ashby,
Howard Jones,
Sun Ra,
The Evens,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Sexual Harrassment,
Minutemen,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Los Fastidios,
Siglo XX,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Don Cherry,
Moby Grape,
cv313,
DJ Sneak,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Trojans,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Hasil Adkins,
Q65,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ludus,
Arab on Radar,
Traffic Nightmare,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Pylon,
The Happenings,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Gories,
Patti Smith,
Japan,
Spandau Ballet,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Soulsonic Force,
Crash Course in Science,
Moss Icon,
Intrusion,
Half Japanese,
Kevin Saunderson,
Drive Like Jehu,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Eddi Front,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Godley & Creme,
Warren Ellis,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Das Ding,
Thee Headcoats,
Wasted Youth,
Suburban Knight,
Interpol,
The Blackbyrds,
These Immortal Souls,
Roger Hodgson,
The Searchers,
Rhythm & Sound,
Theoretical Girls,
Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall.
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.