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 Lithuania and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 cv313 to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Fortunes. All the underground hits.
All Warsaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Suburban Knight 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gichy Dan,
Slave,
Joe Smooth,
Boz Scaggs,
Scratch Acid,
Easy Going,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sam Rivers,
Organ,
Jawbox,
the Slits,
Eric Copeland,
Nation of Ulysses,
Scientists,
Kenny Larkin,
Can,
Big Daddy Kane,
Gong,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Todd Rundgren,
The Standells,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Monochrome Set,
David McCallum,
Jacques Brel,
The Sound,
Donald Byrd,
Prince Buster,
10cc,
Ronnie Foster,
Lower 48,
The Dirtbombs,
Electric Prunes,
Reagan Youth,
Ponytail,
The Sonics,
MDC,
Marc Almond,
Kas Product,
Zero Boys,
The Mummies,
Leonard Cohen,
Q65,
Wally Richardson,
the Fania All-Stars,
Soul II Soul,
Matthew Halsall,
Roxy Music,
Delta 5,
KRS-One,
The Fire Engines,
Motorama,
Average White Band,
Andrew Hill,
Matthew Bourne,
Bill Wells,
Janne Schatter,
The Gap Band,
The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola.
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.