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 Argentina and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 rhodes 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 Eddi Front to the electroclash 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 Reagan Youth. All the underground hits.
All Eric Dolphy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Organ,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Parry Music,
A Certain Ratio,
Vladislav Delay,
Ralphi Rosario,
R.M.O.,
The Fugs,
The Red Krayola,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Colin Newman,
Gregory Isaacs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Count Five,
Interpol,
Y Pants,
Q and Not U,
Terrestrial Tones,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Soft Cell,
Erasure,
The Martian,
Shuggie Otis,
Marc Almond,
Unrelated Segments,
Sex Pistols,
Alphaville,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Peter and Kerry,
June of 44,
Deepchord,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Electric Prunes,
Dorothy Ashby,
Kayak,
Gang Green,
Bobby Sherman,
Carl Craig,
Kaleidoscope,
Amon Düül II,
Chris Corsano,
Rufus Thomas,
The Black Dice,
One Last Wish,
kango's stein massive,
Magazine,
Depeche Mode,
Magma,
Negative Approach,
The Victims,
Gong,
Essential Logic,
Shoche,
Sarah Menescal,
Toni Rubio,
Howard Jones,
Adolescents,
Marine Girls,
The Blues Magoos,
Jesper Dahlback,
Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter.
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.