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 Colombia and from New York.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the oboe 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Average White Band. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eyeless In Gaza record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minnie Riperton record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Standells,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
A Certain Ratio,
Alphaville,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kenny Larkin,
Fad Gadget,
Dark Day,
June Days,
Country Teasers,
The Monochrome Set,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Al Stewart,
Funkadelic,
Supertramp,
Jacob Miller,
Ponytail,
Talk Talk,
Bauhaus,
Crash Course in Science,
Second Layer,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Chrome,
The Cowsills,
Cecil Taylor,
Radio Birdman,
Sugar Minott,
Ralphi Rosario,
Morten Harket,
Scrapy,
Groovy Waters,
CMW,
Model 500,
Brass Construction,
In Retrospect,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Delon & Dalcan,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lou Reed,
Slick Rick,
The Busters,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Johnny Clarke,
Stetsasonic,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Tommy Roe,
Letta Mbulu,
the Normal,
Moby Grape,
Delta 5,
Isaac Hayes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Oneida,
Buzzcocks,
David McCallum,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Barrington Levy,
Cal Tjader,
The Dirtbombs, The Dirtbombs, The Dirtbombs, The Dirtbombs.
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.