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 San Marino and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Rotary Connection to the punk 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 Radiopuhelimet. All the underground hits.
All the Slits tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Icehouse 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New York Dolls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Altered Images,
Bobby Sherman,
Derrick Morgan,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Crime,
Alton Ellis,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Flash Fearless,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Harmonia,
Steve Hackett,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Stockholm Monsters,
Make Up,
Supertramp,
Accadde A,
Bronski Beat,
The Divine Comedy,
Jawbox,
Depeche Mode,
The Pretty Things,
Fela Kuti,
Gang Gang Dance,
Half Japanese,
Jacob Miller,
Swell Maps,
Sonic Youth,
Simply Red,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Martian,
Nirvana,
Jesper Dahlback,
Barrington Levy,
The Last Poets,
The Buckinghams,
Subhumans,
Rhythm & Sound,
Average White Band,
Marc Almond,
The Doors,
The Music Machine,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Ten City,
Roxy Music,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Matthew Halsall,
Marine Girls,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Camouflage,
Minutemen,
DJ Style,
R.M.O.,
Schoolly D,
Lower 48,
Nils Olav,
Unrelated Segments,
The Sonics,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Au Pairs,
Desert Stars,
Lightning Bolt,
Iggy Pop,
Bang On A Can, Bang On A Can, Bang On A Can, Bang On A Can.
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.