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 Dominican Republic and from Glasgow.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the rhodes 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 New Age Steppers to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Alarm Clocks. All the underground hits.
All Robert Görl tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skriet 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 güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moleskins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Durutti Column,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Masters at Work,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Drive Like Jehu,
FM Einheit,
Howard Jones,
Fela Kuti,
Joey Negro,
Franke,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
CMW,
Sun Ra,
Minny Pops,
Barbara Tucker,
Rosa Yemen,
Urselle,
Kevin Saunderson,
Qualms,
Dual Sessions,
The Skatalites,
Livin' Joy,
Metal Thangz,
Shuggie Otis,
Avey Tare,
New Age Steppers,
OOIOO,
Black Bananas,
Crash Course in Science,
These Immortal Souls,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Red Krayola,
Dave Gahan,
The Blackbyrds,
Freddie Wadling,
Albert Ayler,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Happenings,
Black Flag,
Iggy Pop,
X-102,
Nico,
The Birthday Party,
Andrew Hill,
Tim Buckley,
The Fire Engines,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Peter & Gordon,
Main Source,
Yusef Lateef,
Brass Construction,
Wolf Eyes,
Das Ding,
Dawn Penn,
Lalann,
Sound Behaviour,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Fortunes,
Harmonia,
Skarface,
Jacques Brel,
Joe Smooth,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.