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 Brazil and from Taipei.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Beijing.
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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Slackers to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Michelle Simonal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Godley & Creme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Easy Going record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Vogues,
Soulsonic Force,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Golliwogs,
Make Up,
New Order,
Clear Light,
Derrick May,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Red Krayola,
Chris & Cosey,
Infiniti,
Schoolly D,
Avey Tare,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Bobby Byrd,
Patti Smith,
The Electric Prunes,
Supertramp,
Massinfluence,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sun Ra,
ABC,
Pere Ubu,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Rites of Spring,
MC5,
Marc Almond,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Fugs,
Essential Logic,
Los Fastidios,
Soft Machine,
Grauzone,
The Standells,
Wire,
Donald Byrd,
Parry Music,
Cal Tjader,
The Pop Group,
a-ha,
Deakin,
Camouflage,
Interpol,
Agent Orange,
Arthur Verocai,
The Pretty Things,
CMW,
EPMD,
R.M.O.,
Marine Girls,
Kerri Chandler,
Blancmange,
DJ Sneak,
KRS-One,
Reuben Wilson,
These Immortal Souls,
The Fire Engines,
Unwound,
Circle Jerks,
Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins.
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.