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 United States and from Lille.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 theremin 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 DJ Sneak to the rap 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 The Happenings. All the underground hits.
All Harpers Bizarre tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lindisfarne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Pierre Henry,
Pussy Galore,
The United States of America,
Stiv Bators,
Make Up,
Oblivians,
Loose Ends,
Kayak,
The Blackbyrds,
48th St. Collective,
Au Pairs,
Boredoms,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Detroit Cobras,
One Last Wish,
Ronan,
Black Bananas,
Lower 48,
Intrusion,
Quantec,
Kurtis Blow,
Pere Ubu,
Mo-Dettes,
The Gladiators,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Half Japanese,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Buzzcocks,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
New York Dolls,
Grey Daturas,
It's A Beautiful Day,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Zeros,
Eric B and Rakim,
Skaos,
Funky Four + One,
The Golliwogs,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Tommy Roe,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Moleskins,
The Vogues,
LL Cool J,
Barbara Tucker,
Monks,
Japan,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Sisters of Mercy,
T.S.O.L.,
FM Einheit,
Sister Nancy,
Marshall Jefferson,
Peter & Gordon,
Nils Olav,
Radiopuhelimet,
Eddi Front,
Thompson Twins,
Animal Collective,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Minutemen,
The Names, The Names, The Names, The Names.
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.