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 Guatemala and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Detroit Cobras to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Crime. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rod Modell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young,
Chrome,
Qualms,
Mandrill,
DJ Style,
Oblivians,
Janne Schatter,
New Order,
8 Eyed Spy,
Monolake,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sandy B,
Bauhaus,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Vogues,
Bobby Sherman,
10cc,
Ronnie Foster,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Motions,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Maurizio,
Liliput,
Warsaw,
Marcia Griffiths,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bobby Byrd,
Idris Muhammad,
Tomorrow,
John Cale,
Marine Girls,
Soulsonic Force,
Angry Samoans,
Arcadia,
La Düsseldorf,
MC5,
Barry Ungar,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Gang Gang Dance,
Urselle,
Nas,
Cameo,
Dave Gahan,
Boz Scaggs,
Jeff Lynne,
Alison Limerick,
The Happenings,
Joy Division,
The J.B.'s,
Shuggie Otis,
X-102,
Sun City Girls,
Nils Olav,
Animal Collective,
Terry Callier,
Avey Tare,
Boogie Down Productions,
Tropical Tobacco,
Interpol,
Rosa Yemen,
Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy.
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.