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 Taiwan 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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 spring reverb 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 UT to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Livin' Joy. All the underground hits.
All Soulsonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Beau Brummels record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Byron Stingily,
Bobby Byrd,
Erykah Badu,
Absolute Body Control,
Grey Daturas,
Brand Nubian,
The Monochrome Set,
The Blues Magoos,
Q65,
Fela Kuti,
R.M.O.,
Arcadia,
Barry Ungar,
Al Stewart,
Deadbeat,
Man Eating Sloth,
Glenn Branca,
The Dave Clark Five,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bronski Beat,
Soulsonic Force,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
John Foxx,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Modern Lovers,
The Fortunes,
Slave,
Trumans Water,
Skaos,
Roxette,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Fatback Band,
Ossler,
The Saints,
Patti Smith,
Marc Almond,
Faust,
Soul Sonic Force,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
CMW,
Pulsallama,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Aswad,
Maurizio,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Malaria!,
Gong,
The Residents,
Kaleidoscope,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Joyce Sims,
The Fuzztones,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Quadrant,
Warsaw,
Icehouse,
Lalann,
Y Pants,
The J.B.'s,
Wire,
Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses.
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.