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 Ghana and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Gang of Four to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Moleskins. All the underground hits.
All Gong tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABBA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crime,
Tomorrow,
Patti Smith,
Crash Course in Science,
Sarah Menescal,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Symarip,
H. Thieme,
In Retrospect,
Mars,
The Gladiators,
Banda Bassotti,
This Heat,
Qualms,
Erasure,
Black Moon,
Japan,
Jesper Dahlback,
EPMD,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Gong,
Severed Heads,
Gabor Szabo,
Radio Birdman,
New Order,
The Raincoats,
Peter & Gordon,
Harpers Bizarre,
Hashim,
Siglo XX,
Panda Bear,
Rites of Spring,
E-Dancer,
Q and Not U,
The Buckinghams,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Tommy Roe,
Pylon,
The Cure,
The J.B.'s,
kango's stein massive,
The Pretty Things,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
D'Angelo,
Black Flag,
The Gun Club,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Man Parrish,
Zapp,
Hardrive,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Blackbyrds,
Althea and Donna,
Bill Wells,
Flipper,
Sun Ra,
Public Enemy,
The Durutti Column,
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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.