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 Qatar and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 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 The Mighty Diamonds to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Theoretical Girls. All the underground hits.
All Flamin' Groovies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rahsaan Roland Kirk 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echo & the Bunnymen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Yusef Lateef,
Boz Scaggs,
a-ha,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
10cc,
Visage,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Todd Rundgren,
Black Bananas,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Barracudas,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Mark Hollis,
OOIOO,
Absolute Body Control,
Glambeats Corp.,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Moody Blues,
Agitation Free,
The Velvet Underground,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Arab on Radar,
Warsaw,
Dead Boys,
Althea and Donna,
Subhumans,
Marmalade,
the Swans,
ABBA,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Porter Ricks,
The Five Americans,
Maurizio,
Dave Gahan,
Sam Rivers,
Kaleidoscope,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Essential Logic,
Kerri Chandler,
Radio Birdman,
Gastr Del Sol,
Theoretical Girls,
Graham Central Station,
Josef K,
Erykah Badu,
Nation of Ulysses,
Rufus Thomas,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Royal Trux,
Slick Rick,
Peter & Gordon,
Tim Buckley,
Eve St. Jones,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Franke,
The Gladiators,
Pylon,
Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX.
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.