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 Cameroon 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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 arpeggiator 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 Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth to the jazz 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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Mantronix tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul Sonic Force record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Zeros record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Dave Clark Five,
Yazoo,
Henry Cow,
Supertramp,
Aswad,
Skriet,
Sparks,
Piero Umiliani,
Graham Central Station,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eurythmics,
Althea and Donna,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sonic Youth,
The Associates,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Electric Prunes,
Schoolly D,
Delta 5,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Offenders,
L. Decosne,
Prince Buster,
Lee Hazlewood,
Patti Smith,
The Fuzztones,
The Real Kids,
Camouflage,
The Beau Brummels,
Rapeman,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Quadrant,
ABBA,
The Gun Club,
Tubeway Army,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Evens,
Technova,
New Age Steppers,
Hardrive,
Godley & Creme,
Wally Richardson,
Sixth Finger,
Flipper,
Bill Near,
Fugazi,
Shuggie Otis,
Fad Gadget,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Au Pairs,
Andrew Hill,
The Litter,
Lalann,
Heaven 17,
a-ha,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken.
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.