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 Croatia 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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Pantaleimon to the electroclash 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 Scrapy. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every La Düsseldorf record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Surgeon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lower 48,
Negative Approach,
Fluxion,
U.S. Maple,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Gang Gang Dance,
Pagans,
Joe Finger,
In Retrospect,
EPMD,
Jawbox,
Warsaw,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Accadde A,
Nik Kershaw,
Mission of Burma,
Boredoms,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Star Department,
Main Source,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bobby Womack,
Faraquet,
The Divine Comedy,
Bobby Byrd,
Isaac Hayes,
Stereo Dub,
JFA,
Eden Ahbez,
Joy Division,
Chrome,
Ponytail,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Searchers,
Todd Rundgren,
The Beau Brummels,
Gerry Rafferty,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Rakim,
Dennis Brown,
Girls At Our Best!,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Moleskins,
Robert Wyatt,
Derrick May,
Donny Hathaway,
Boogie Down Productions,
Yaz,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Human League,
Desert Stars,
Television,
Yellowson,
Neil Young,
Sällskapet,
the Human League,
Cheater Slicks,
Von Mondo,
Jeru the Damaja,
Fela Kuti, Fela Kuti, Fela Kuti, Fela Kuti.
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.