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 Argentina and from Woodstock.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Jawbox 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 Marshall Jefferson. All the underground hits.
All Pulsallama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cymande 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Crime,
Matthew Halsall,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Standells,
The Move,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Young Rascals,
The Modern Lovers,
Sun City Girls,
D'Angelo,
Groovy Waters,
Malaria!,
Inner City,
Joey Negro,
Isaac Hayes,
Dorothy Ashby,
Suicide,
David Bowie,
Ossler,
Juan Atkins,
Technova,
MC5,
Severed Heads,
Crispian St. Peters,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Cameo,
Barrington Levy,
Reuben Wilson,
Skarface,
The Cowsills,
Barbara Tucker,
The Names,
Moby Grape,
The Saints,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lindisfarne,
Wings,
Alice Coltrane,
Yaz,
The Walker Brothers,
Adolescents,
Throbbing Gristle,
Curtis Mayfield,
Yellowson,
Sparks,
Harry Pussy,
Moss Icon,
Delon & Dalcan,
Swans,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Human League,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Arcadia,
The Five Americans,
Jacob Miller,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ornette Coleman,
Country Teasers,
Funkadelic,
Pantaleimon,
Niagra,
Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth.
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.