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 Georgia and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 organ 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 Panda Bear to the techno 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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All David McCallum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Manfred Mann's Earth Band 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Young Marble Giants record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
A Certain Ratio,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Blues Magoos,
Easy Going,
The Residents,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Vainqueur,
UT,
Electric Prunes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Albert Ayler,
Reagan Youth,
Fugazi,
Little Man,
Eric Dolphy,
The Selecter,
Lou Christie,
The Pop Group,
Duran Duran,
Derrick May,
Ituana,
Theoretical Girls,
Todd Terry,
Index,
Metal Thangz,
The Mummies,
Young Marble Giants,
Fad Gadget,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Gories,
Eric Copeland,
Smog,
Stetsasonic,
Crispian St. Peters,
Mo-Dettes,
Fort Wilson Riot,
FM Einheit,
Hasil Adkins,
Rotary Connection,
Sex Pistols,
Isaac Hayes,
The Associates,
Nick Fraelich,
X-Ray Spex,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Funkadelic,
Roxette,
Rufus Thomas,
Wings,
The Skatalites,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Q and Not U,
Peter and Kerry,
Echospace,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Aloha Tigers,
The Monochrome Set,
Peter & Gordon,
Jeff Mills,
ABC,
Robert Görl,
The Misunderstood,
Mars, Mars, Mars, Mars.
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.