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 Cuba and from Mumbai.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Sun City Girls. All the underground hits.
All The Black Dice tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Outsiders 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Alarm Clocks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minnie Riperton,
Goldenarms,
Juan Atkins,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Urselle,
Negative Approach,
Zero Boys,
Lalo Schifrin,
Mandrill,
Agitation Free,
Rod Modell,
Deadbeat,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
kango's stein massive,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Move,
Scratch Acid,
The Buckinghams,
Lee Hazlewood,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Supertramp,
Ultravox,
Neil Young,
Kenny Larkin,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Audionom,
Mars,
La Düsseldorf,
Dave Gahan,
Altered Images,
F. McDonald,
Crooked Eye,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Japan,
The Moody Blues,
The Blackbyrds,
Dead Boys,
Brothers Johnson,
The Victims,
Metal Thangz,
Alison Limerick,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Thee Headcoats,
Jacques Brel,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Wolf Eyes,
Masters at Work,
Technova,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Blake Baxter,
Sound Behaviour,
the Human League,
Marvin Gaye,
The Smiths,
Chris Corsano,
Y Pants,
Sun Ra,
Darondo,
Parry Music,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.