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 Philippines and from Beijing.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Guru Guru to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Ralphi Rosario. All the underground hits.
All Eurythmics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Saccharine Trust record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Index,
Shoche,
The Wake,
Minutemen,
The Moleskins,
EPMD,
Mr. Review,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Throbbing Gristle,
Leonard Cohen,
Marvin Gaye,
John Cale,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Human League,
Urselle,
Trumans Water,
Motorama,
The Stooges,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Malaria!,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Beau Brummels,
Stereo Dub,
Gang Green,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Alice Coltrane,
Cluster,
The Toasters,
The Leaves,
Fat Boys,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gregory Isaacs,
Swans,
Lindisfarne,
John Foxx,
The Star Department,
AZ,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Q and Not U,
Dark Day,
David Axelrod,
Dennis Brown,
Bluetip,
Sam Rivers,
the Bar-Kays,
The Busters,
Monks,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Smiths,
The Barracudas,
Mars,
Neu!,
Amon Düül II,
Jacques Brel,
Cheater Slicks,
Unwound, Unwound, Unwound, Unwound.
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.