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 Montenegro 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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Joe Smooth to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Schoolly D. All the underground hits.
All The Dirtbombs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nik Kershaw record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dorothy Ashby,
Eric Copeland,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Talk Talk,
MDC,
This Heat,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Symarip,
Avey Tare,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Barrington Levy,
Roger Hodgson,
The Walker Brothers,
Alton Ellis,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Names,
FM Einheit,
Delta 5,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Jawbox,
Eden Ahbez,
the Sonics,
Gichy Dan,
Yaz,
The Standells,
The Birthday Party,
Y Pants,
the Association,
Arthur Verocai,
CMW,
AZ,
Prince Buster,
The Gap Band,
Blancmange,
Rekid,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Deakin,
Stiv Bators,
Motorama,
Los Fastidios,
The Dirtbombs,
Curtis Mayfield,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Freddie Wadling,
Mandrill,
The Residents,
Roy Ayers,
Hasil Adkins,
Faraquet,
Eurythmics,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Blackbyrds,
John Lydon,
Dawn Penn,
Big Daddy Kane,
Quantec,
Flamin' Groovies,
Slave,
Isaac Hayes,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker.
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.