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 Costa Rica and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 electroclash 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 Pet Shop Boys. All the underground hits.
All Justin Hinds & The Dominoes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barclay James Harvest 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neu! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sound,
New York Dolls,
The Fuzztones,
Minor Threat,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Marc Almond,
The Zeros,
Whodini,
Rakim,
Pylon,
Hashim,
Marvin Gaye,
Boredoms,
Black Moon,
Eric B and Rakim,
Aswad,
CMW,
Frankie Knuckles,
Wally Richardson,
James White and The Blacks,
Tres Demented,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Visage,
Mars,
Barrington Levy,
Stetsasonic,
June of 44,
Pagans,
JFA,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
a-ha,
Procol Harum,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Tim Buckley,
Boogie Down Productions,
Jesper Dahlback,
Rufus Thomas,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Alphaville,
Massinfluence,
Barclay James Harvest,
Joe Smooth,
T. Rex,
Absolute Body Control,
Funky Four + One,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Man Parrish,
Crispian St. Peters,
Electric Prunes,
Silicon Teens,
Marcia Griffiths,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kerri Chandler,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Spoonie Gee,
Surgeon,
Qualms,
Soulsonic Force,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx.
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.