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 Libya and from Philadelphia.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Byron Stingily. All the underground hits.
All Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mantronix record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Banda Bassotti,
LL Cool J,
Silicon Teens,
Neu!,
Lindisfarne,
Alton Ellis,
Rosa Yemen,
Main Source,
Von Mondo,
John Coltrane,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Massinfluence,
Rakim,
Connie Case,
Moss Icon,
The Vogues,
Wire,
Buzzcocks,
Chris & Cosey,
Eric Copeland,
Barrington Levy,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Jerry's Kids,
PIL,
Bootsy Collins,
Rapeman,
Danielle Patucci,
Funkadelic,
The Raincoats,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Prince Buster,
Soft Machine,
Idris Muhammad,
The Misunderstood,
Visage,
Rites of Spring,
The Red Krayola,
Brick,
Public Enemy,
Grauzone,
Essential Logic,
The Black Dice,
Amazonics,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sparks,
The Five Americans,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Sound,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ralphi Rosario,
Parry Music,
Ronan,
Rod Modell,
The Fire Engines,
The Walker Brothers,
Dorothy Ashby,
Hashim,
Aswad,
Todd Terry,
The Modern Lovers,
The New Christs,
Fela Kuti,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.