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 Andorra and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Paris.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Idris Muhammad to the disco 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 Liliput. All the underground hits.
All Archie Shepp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sarah Menescal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Model 500,
Bang On A Can,
Nick Fraelich,
Flamin' Groovies,
Susan Cadogan,
Rites of Spring,
Tres Demented,
Ultra Naté,
the Bar-Kays,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Wake,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Vogues,
Kurtis Blow,
Underground Resistance,
T. Rex,
Echospace,
Jimmy McGriff,
Camberwell Now,
D'Angelo,
Jerry's Kids,
Flash Fearless,
The Flesh Eaters,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Pantytec,
Dave Gahan,
The Moody Blues,
Technova,
LL Cool J,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Birthday Party,
The Motions,
Girls At Our Best!,
Simply Red,
The Barracudas,
Stetsasonic,
Quantec,
Barrington Levy,
Matthew Halsall,
The Trojans,
Adolescents,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Fire Engines,
Minny Pops,
Fugazi,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bob Dylan,
Amon Düül,
Todd Rundgren,
Grandmaster Flash,
Neu!,
Lou Reed,
Yellowson,
Bobby Byrd,
Ronnie Foster,
Intrusion,
Connie Case,
Little Man,
Neil Young,
The Skatalites,
Mantronix,
Animal Collective,
Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis.
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.