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 Chad and from Tokyo.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Thompson Twins to the techno 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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All The Tremeloes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Popol Vuh record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Supertramp,
The Vogues,
The Monochrome Set,
Kurtis Blow,
the Association,
L. Decosne,
Thompson Twins,
Graham Central Station,
Radiohead,
the Sonics,
Scrapy,
New Age Steppers,
Black Flag,
The Five Americans,
Second Layer,
Sällskapet,
Henry Cow,
Laurel Aitken,
Eurythmics,
Siglo XX,
Moss Icon,
Metal Thangz,
Johnny Osbourne,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Kool Moe Dee,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Iggy Pop,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Main Source,
Eden Ahbez,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Sam Rivers,
Barbara Tucker,
Ponytail,
Massinfluence,
Joy Division,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ralphi Rosario,
Popol Vuh,
Hardrive,
Delon & Dalcan,
Eric B and Rakim,
Gichy Dan,
Television,
the Fania All-Stars,
Erykah Badu,
Pere Ubu,
Oneida,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Flesh Eaters,
Smog,
Patti Smith,
Marmalade,
Soft Machine,
Freddie Wadling,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Byron Stingily,
48th St. Collective,
The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers.
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.