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 Gabon and from Bremen.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs to the techno 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 Young Marble Giants. All the underground hits.
All The Mighty Diamonds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy's Rubber Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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?
Absolute Body Control,
Stiv Bators,
David McCallum,
DJ Sneak,
The Motions,
June Days,
Terrestrial Tones,
Cybotron,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Smoke,
Glambeats Corp.,
Brass Construction,
Patti Smith,
Pole,
Q and Not U,
Simply Red,
Amon Düül II,
Livin' Joy,
Letta Mbulu,
Public Image Ltd.,
R.M.O.,
Mo-Dettes,
Niagra,
Johnny Clarke,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Rekid,
Reagan Youth,
Crash Course in Science,
Delta 5,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Toasters,
Radiohead,
the Sonics,
David Axelrod,
Moby Grape,
Johnny Osbourne,
the Bar-Kays,
Tom Boy,
Quantec,
Grauzone,
The Blackbyrds,
Michelle Simonal,
Skriet,
Kerrie Biddell,
Public Enemy,
Godley & Creme,
Animal Collective,
Bluetip,
Adolescents,
Cameo,
Pet Shop Boys,
Black Pus,
Lightning Bolt,
Sound Behaviour,
Bill Near,
Erykah Badu,
Panda Bear,
Robert Hood,
The Sound,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Urselle, Urselle, Urselle, Urselle.
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.