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 Kuwait and from Johannesburg.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Manila.
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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the marimba 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 Flash Fearless to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Qualms. All the underground hits.
All Warsaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skriet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MC5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mr. Review,
Gabor Szabo,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Harmonia,
Depeche Mode,
The Modern Lovers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Black Flag,
Public Enemy,
Bobby Byrd,
Visage,
The Leaves,
Ten City,
Rosa Yemen,
Section 25,
China Crisis,
Iggy Pop,
Man Eating Sloth,
Danielle Patucci,
UT,
Infiniti,
These Immortal Souls,
Lalo Schifrin,
Eve St. Jones,
Average White Band,
Marshall Jefferson,
Livin' Joy,
Rakim,
The Buckinghams,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Scan 7,
Young Marble Giants,
The Move,
Tres Demented,
Absolute Body Control,
The Dirtbombs,
Kevin Saunderson,
June Days,
Roy Ayers,
Tim Buckley,
The Mojo Men,
Ludus,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Cameo,
Faust,
Piero Umiliani,
The Monochrome Set,
World's Most,
Black Pus,
Juan Atkins,
Deadbeat,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Bobby Womack,
JFA,
Brick,
Country Teasers,
Spoonie Gee,
Pulsallama,
Saccharine Trust,
the Soft Cell,
Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon.
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.