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 Ghana and from Lagos.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Crocodile.
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 Suburban Knight. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Neon Judgement record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Eddi Front,
Pere Ubu,
The Move,
the Association,
Soft Cell,
Half Japanese,
Jimmy McGriff,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Soul II Soul,
Easy Going,
Gregory Isaacs,
Guru Guru,
Henry Cow,
Nick Fraelich,
Letta Mbulu,
Sight & Sound,
Suburban Knight,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Bill Near,
Second Layer,
Swell Maps,
John Coltrane,
The Happenings,
Rhythm & Sound,
Infiniti,
The Beau Brummels,
D'Angelo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The United States of America,
Josef K,
Skarface,
Gichy Dan,
Suicide,
Bob Dylan,
LL Cool J,
The Invisible,
PIL,
The Doors,
Malaria!,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Judy Mowatt,
cv313,
Flipper,
Silicon Teens,
Index,
Echospace,
Sarah Menescal,
Liliput,
Susan Cadogan,
Bluetip,
Absolute Body Control,
Essential Logic,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Cure,
Man Parrish,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Delon & Dalcan,
Theoretical Girls,
The Seeds,
The Raincoats,
Minor Threat,
The Motions,
Rotary Connection,
Qualms, Qualms, Qualms, Qualms.
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.