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 Luxembourg and from Tehran.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Popol Vuh to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 E-Dancer. All the underground hits.
All Toni Rubio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tubeway Army record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Urselle record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camberwell Now,
Mary Jane Girls,
Siglo XX,
The Dave Clark Five,
Camouflage,
The Knickerbockers,
Infiniti,
Deakin,
Glambeats Corp.,
Alton Ellis,
Johnny Osbourne,
David McCallum,
Scrapy,
Tomorrow,
The Gladiators,
The Dirtbombs,
Vladislav Delay,
Roy Ayers,
Minnie Riperton,
The Associates,
LL Cool J,
Lindisfarne,
Lebanon Hanover,
Unrelated Segments,
Patti Smith,
Lucky Dragons,
Thompson Twins,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Vogues,
The Barracudas,
Flamin' Groovies,
Glenn Branca,
Unwound,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sandy B,
Bush Tetras,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Eric B and Rakim,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Maleditus Sound,
The Selecter,
Khruangbin,
The Divine Comedy,
Charles Mingus,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Theoretical Girls,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Stooges,
The Golliwogs,
the Swans,
Henry Cow,
Fugazi,
Silicon Teens,
Sex Pistols,
Leonard Cohen,
Amon Düül,
Yellowson,
Arthur Verocai,
The Evens,
Piero Umiliani,
Graham Central Station,
The Mojo Men,
Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses.
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.