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 Cuba and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 spring reverb 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 John Holt. All the underground hits.
All The Selecter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Qualms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Sherman,
Tommy Roe,
Absolute Body Control,
The Music Machine,
Man Parrish,
ABC,
Mo-Dettes,
The Alarm Clocks,
Marvin Gaye,
Rotary Connection,
Sun Ra,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Gap Band,
In Retrospect,
The Velvet Underground,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Barbara Tucker,
Soul Sonic Force,
Babytalk,
Cheater Slicks,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Charles Mingus,
Brand Nubian,
Sister Nancy,
The Modern Lovers,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Audionom,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Dave Clark Five,
Malaria!,
Johnny Osbourne,
Goldenarms,
The Detroit Cobras,
Wire,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Altered Images,
The Knickerbockers,
Kurtis Blow,
Piero Umiliani,
The Names,
Sarah Menescal,
Darondo,
Underground Resistance,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Fugs,
The Gun Club,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Newcleus,
The Vogues,
Faraquet,
Don Cherry,
PIL,
Easy Going,
Laurel Aitken,
Half Japanese,
Severed Heads,
Echospace,
Agitation Free,
John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx.
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.