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 Ireland and from Manila.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 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 Accadde A to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Jesper Dahlback. All the underground hits.
All Interpol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mojo Men record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
8 Eyed Spy,
David Axelrod,
Piero Umiliani,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Rod Modell,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
John Holt,
Pagans,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Modern Lovers,
The Raincoats,
Faraquet,
Aaron Thompson,
Heaven 17,
Lebanon Hanover,
Jandek,
Massinfluence,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Dual Sessions,
Tropical Tobacco,
This Heat,
Nik Kershaw,
Scion,
Visage,
JFA,
Judy Mowatt,
Soul II Soul,
the Fania All-Stars,
Groovy Waters,
Pussy Galore,
Mandrill,
Swell Maps,
Arcadia,
Todd Rundgren,
Bauhaus,
Make Up,
Hardrive,
Freddie Wadling,
The Doors,
The Doobie Brothers,
Matthew Bourne,
Delon & Dalcan,
Andrew Hill,
Roxette,
Lindisfarne,
Nick Fraelich,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Motorama,
Easy Going,
Boredoms,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Steve Hackett,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Wolf Eyes,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Agent Orange,
Kool Moe Dee,
Joe Smooth,
Schoolly D,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers.
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.