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 Poland and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Nile Rodgers 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 These Immortal Souls to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Albert Ayler. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vainqueur record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tommy Roe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Au Pairs,
Mantronix,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Albert Ayler,
Leonard Cohen,
Rotary Connection,
Cal Tjader,
Nico,
Chrome,
Barbara Tucker,
Symarip,
Steve Hackett,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Knickerbockers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Cramps,
Crooked Eye,
Fela Kuti,
Make Up,
Ice-T,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Techniques,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Royal Trux,
Scientists,
Jesper Dahlback,
Aaron Thompson,
The Last Poets,
Bauhaus,
Tom Boy,
Motorama,
Marc Almond,
Joensuu 1685,
Marmalade,
Quando Quango,
Accadde A,
Faraquet,
Trumans Water,
the Association,
Joe Smooth,
The Dead C,
FM Einheit,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
T. Rex,
Dual Sessions,
Sarah Menescal,
Mo-Dettes,
The Gories,
X-Ray Spex,
David Axelrod,
Arcadia,
Fear,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Birthday Party,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Mighty Diamonds,
a-ha,
Amon Düül II,
Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players.
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.