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 Milan.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Human League to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Kayak. All the underground hits.
All The Divine Comedy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-102 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hasil Adkins,
EPMD,
Mad Mike,
Andrew Hill,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Crispy Ambulance,
Roy Ayers,
Tim Buckley,
Ituana,
The Offenders,
The Blues Magoos,
Oneida,
Lakeside,
Monks,
H. Thieme,
Hot Snakes,
New York Dolls,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Prince Buster,
Cal Tjader,
Henry Cow,
the Swans,
AZ,
The Tremeloes,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Chrome,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Seeds,
The United States of America,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lalann,
The Last Poets,
Infiniti,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Yusef Lateef,
Rapeman,
Eric Copeland,
Gang Gang Dance,
Patti Smith,
Pantaleimon,
Glambeats Corp.,
Joyce Sims,
DJ Sneak,
Gang Starr,
Camberwell Now,
Section 25,
Arab on Radar,
Warren Ellis,
Lou Christie,
The Associates,
Bad Manners,
Delta 5,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Beau Brummels,
Stiv Bators,
Bob Dylan,
F. McDonald,
Sight & Sound,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap.
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.