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 Senegal and from Accra.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five to the dance 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. All the underground hits.
All DeepChord presents Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every PIL 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Human League record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Shuggie Otis,
Niagra,
Jandek,
The Black Dice,
John Coltrane,
the Germs,
The Five Americans,
Kool Moe Dee,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Mojo Men,
Parry Music,
Pere Ubu,
Simply Red,
Cybotron,
Easy Going,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Curtis Mayfield,
Bill Near,
Sly & The Family Stone,
a-ha,
The Moleskins,
Average White Band,
Junior Murvin,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Fatback Band,
Ultra Naté,
Kevin Saunderson,
Stetsasonic,
Gang Starr,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Boz Scaggs,
Steve Hackett,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Misunderstood,
Ornette Coleman,
Y Pants,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
This Heat,
Flipper,
Neu!,
B.T. Express,
The Gladiators,
Technova,
U.S. Maple,
Urselle,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Grass Roots,
The Index,
OOIOO,
D'Angelo,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Dennis Brown,
Crispian St. Peters,
Jeru the Damaja,
Joensuu 1685,
Oblivians,
Jeff Mills,
Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry.
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.