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 Turkey and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the electroclash 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 Shoche. All the underground hits.
All Boogie Down Productions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every kango's stein massive 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 '80s.
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 Livin' Joy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord 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?
The Electric Prunes,
Wings,
The Raincoats,
Alton Ellis,
48th St. Collective,
Q and Not U,
The Music Machine,
Crispy Ambulance,
This Heat,
Fatback Band,
Robert Hood,
Country Teasers,
The Victims,
Thee Headcoats,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Electric Prunes,
Cal Tjader,
D'Angelo,
Dave Gahan,
Nils Olav,
Dark Day,
Minor Threat,
Johnny Clarke,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
New Order,
Erasure,
Derrick Morgan,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Popol Vuh,
Pierre Henry,
Funky Four + One,
Sarah Menescal,
Moss Icon,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Slackers,
Guru Guru,
10cc,
The Gun Club,
Goldenarms,
Scientists,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Barclay James Harvest,
Dawn Penn,
Sonic Youth,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Zero Boys,
Marmalade,
Moebius,
Flash Fearless,
Bill Near,
Jerry's Kids,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kayak,
Malaria!,
F. McDonald,
Ice-T,
Mars,
The Knickerbockers,
Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs.
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.