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 Laos and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 güiro 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 AZ to the crunk 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 Suburban Knight. All the underground hits.
All Whodini tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantytec 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 güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Danielle Patucci record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alison Limerick,
Crash Course in Science,
The Walker Brothers,
Boz Scaggs,
Radio Birdman,
Marc Almond,
Charles Mingus,
Robert Wyatt,
Moby Grape,
Quadrant,
Lindisfarne,
D'Angelo,
LL Cool J,
The Stooges,
Quantec,
The Last Poets,
Soft Cell,
Henry Cow,
Godley & Creme,
Suicide,
R.M.O.,
Hoover,
Joy Division,
Black Moon,
Wally Richardson,
Ultimate Spinach,
CMW,
Althea and Donna,
Cal Tjader,
Rosa Yemen,
Skarface,
Letta Mbulu,
Kas Product,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Brand Nubian,
Scrapy,
Sparks,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
June of 44,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Skaos,
Youth Brigade,
MDC,
Heaven 17,
Lower 48,
T.S.O.L.,
the Human League,
The Dave Clark Five,
Wire,
Sarah Menescal,
Moebius,
The Doors,
Matthew Bourne,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Blues Magoos,
Traffic Nightmare,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gang Green,
The Tremeloes,
The Fortunes,
Marvin Gaye,
Darondo,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine.
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.