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 Mexico and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 oboe 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 Lower 48 to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Matthew Halsall record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scrapy,
Kas Product,
The Gladiators,
The Doobie Brothers,
Warren Ellis,
Camouflage,
Bauhaus,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Leonard Cohen,
Steve Hackett,
Wire,
Boz Scaggs,
The J.B.'s,
Sex Pistols,
the Slits,
Morten Harket,
The Grass Roots,
Avey Tare,
David Axelrod,
Kurtis Blow,
Howard Jones,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
D'Angelo,
K-Klass,
Kenny Larkin,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Henry Cow,
Dave Gahan,
Aural Exciters,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Mad Mike,
Soulsonic Force,
Patti Smith,
Black Flag,
Unwound,
Arcadia,
Erasure,
Magazine,
Tears for Fears,
Negative Approach,
Minny Pops,
New York Dolls,
AZ,
The Divine Comedy,
Pole,
Bang On A Can,
the Fania All-Stars,
Glambeats Corp.,
Fluxion,
Franke,
Lalann,
Dark Day,
Joey Negro,
Dual Sessions,
Stereo Dub,
Duran Duran,
Crispian St. Peters,
DNA,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Durutti Column,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Bobby Sherman,
Fat Boys,
Michelle Simonal,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.