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 United Kingdom and from Madrid.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Skaos to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Happenings. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heaven 17 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Age Steppers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Dolphy,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Suburban Knight,
Eden Ahbez,
Dead Boys,
Echospace,
Ralphi Rosario,
D'Angelo,
Black Pus,
Main Source,
cv313,
Lyres,
Country Teasers,
Marcia Griffiths,
JFA,
AZ,
The Durutti Column,
Eric B and Rakim,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Brass Construction,
Faraquet,
Skarface,
L. Decosne,
Kurtis Blow,
Matthew Bourne,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Beau Brummels,
Spandau Ballet,
Black Sheep,
Basic Channel,
Adolescents,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Harpers Bizarre,
Connie Case,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Half Japanese,
Zero Boys,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Marc Almond,
Marvin Gaye,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Japan,
Sandy B,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Dirtbombs,
X-101,
Depeche Mode,
The Martian,
Second Layer,
Max Romeo,
Goldenarms,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Alison Limerick,
Young Marble Giants,
Make Up,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Letta Mbulu,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Warren Ellis,
Piero Umiliani,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.