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 Eritrea and from Bologna.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 mellotron 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 Andrew Hill to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Dead Boys. All the underground hits.
All Q65 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camouflage record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Icehouse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxette,
Bizarre Inc.,
Alphaville,
Nico,
The Names,
Pantytec,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Black Dice,
Crooked Eye,
the Association,
Patti Smith,
Interpol,
Boogie Down Productions,
Black Sheep,
Thompson Twins,
These Immortal Souls,
The Techniques,
Motorama,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Dave Clark Five,
D'Angelo,
Big Daddy Kane,
Guru Guru,
The Star Department,
Ralphi Rosario,
Archie Shepp,
Fat Boys,
The Martian,
Minutemen,
Rekid,
Junior Murvin,
Morten Harket,
Nik Kershaw,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
DNA,
Neu!,
Sugar Minott,
Tres Demented,
Tropical Tobacco,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Tremeloes,
Franke,
The Offenders,
Japan,
John Foxx,
The American Breed,
The Smoke,
Eric B and Rakim,
Stockholm Monsters,
Duran Duran,
The Birthday Party,
Bobby Womack,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Jacques Brel,
Q65,
Boredoms,
Massinfluence,
Supertramp,
Girls At Our Best!,
Pole,
Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton.
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.