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 Latvia and from Tehran.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the snare 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 The Cowsills to the punk 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 Joensuu 1685. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül II tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Buzzcocks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Music Machine,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Brick,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Marshall Jefferson,
Erasure,
MDC,
Yellowson,
Curtis Mayfield,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Crooked Eye,
Faust,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
New York Dolls,
X-101,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Boogie Down Productions,
Maurizio,
Magazine,
Country Teasers,
Connie Case,
Nils Olav,
The Motions,
Delon & Dalcan,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Matthew Halsall,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Crash Course in Science,
Ossler,
Rhythm & Sound,
Maleditus Sound,
The Fortunes,
Barry Ungar,
Jesper Dahlback,
Reuben Wilson,
Fugazi,
The Zeros,
The Monks,
Altered Images,
World's Most,
Faraquet,
Arthur Verocai,
Public Enemy,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Brothers Johnson,
the Human League,
Yazoo,
Pagans,
Bobby Byrd,
Cheater Slicks,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Heaven 17,
Model 500,
Fad Gadget,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Blancmange,
Crispian St. Peters,
Iggy Pop,
Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones.
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.