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 France and from Bremen.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Joensuu 1685 to the electroclash 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 Junior Murvin. All the underground hits.
All Yellowson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hardrive 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a T.S.O.L. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Make Up,
Pere Ubu,
Brick,
The Knickerbockers,
Scratch Acid,
Main Source,
Fad Gadget,
Nick Fraelich,
The Smiths,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Wire,
Susan Cadogan,
Ohio Players,
the Sonics,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Michelle Simonal,
Shuggie Otis,
The Sonics,
Rekid,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Zapp,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Kinks,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Barbara Tucker,
The Evens,
Black Pus,
Ossler,
Wolf Eyes,
Flamin' Groovies,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
DNA,
LL Cool J,
New York Dolls,
Avey Tare,
The Mojo Men,
Pussy Galore,
Sexual Harrassment,
Peter and Kerry,
Con Funk Shun,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Crispian St. Peters,
Terry Callier,
Gastr Del Sol,
Qualms,
Electric Prunes,
The Flesh Eaters,
Marshall Jefferson,
Interpol,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Loose Ends,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Al Stewart,
Scrapy,
Sugar Minott,
Bluetip,
John Lydon,
Prince Buster,
the Bar-Kays,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.