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 Greece and from Paris.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 the Normal to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Boogie Down Productions. All the underground hits.
All Warsaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June Days record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Remains record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
Ice-T,
Maurizio,
Barbara Tucker,
The Birthday Party,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
D'Angelo,
AZ,
Ultravox,
The Cowsills,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Saints,
Kevin Saunderson,
Index,
Sam Rivers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Jacob Miller,
Sexual Harrassment,
Gang Gang Dance,
Lou Christie,
Kerri Chandler,
The Tremeloes,
The Fuzztones,
The Zeros,
Don Cherry,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Can,
Rufus Thomas,
Soul II Soul,
Section 25,
World's Most,
Reagan Youth,
Rekid,
T.S.O.L.,
The Standells,
The Vogues,
The Doobie Brothers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Minny Pops,
Cabaret Voltaire,
This Heat,
Intrusion,
Adolescents,
Cal Tjader,
The Skatalites,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Modern Lovers,
Lucky Dragons,
Bang On A Can,
Mo-Dettes,
Wally Richardson,
The Durutti Column,
Hasil Adkins,
Yellowson,
Kurtis Blow,
Brothers Johnson,
Marc Almond,
Eve St. Jones,
Babytalk,
Funky Four + One,
John Cale, John Cale, John Cale, John Cale.
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.