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 Honduras and from Portland.
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 Winnipeg and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Toni Rubio to the electroclash 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 Al Stewart. All the underground hits.
All Underground Resistance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Leaves,
Intrusion,
Radiopuhelimet,
Severed Heads,
Skriet,
The Vogues,
The Litter,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Alarm Clocks,
Sam Rivers,
The Fire Engines,
Country Teasers,
Youth Brigade,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
cv313,
Bill Wells,
Sparks,
Moss Icon,
Brick,
Nick Fraelich,
Grauzone,
Grey Daturas,
June Days,
Nico,
James White and The Blacks,
Panda Bear,
Aloha Tigers,
Siglo XX,
The Grass Roots,
Drive Like Jehu,
Barry Ungar,
OOIOO,
Monolake,
Cameo,
a-ha,
The Gun Club,
KRS-One,
Sight & Sound,
Goldenarms,
Johnny Osbourne,
Eric Dolphy,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Eddi Front,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Evens,
Erasure,
The Cramps,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Surgeon,
Hoover,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Man Eating Sloth,
Minor Threat,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Blancmange,
Faraquet,
The Tremeloes,
Maleditus Sound,
Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick.
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.