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 Iran and from Paris.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Saccharine Trust to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Pere Ubu. All the underground hits.
All EPMD tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every La Düsseldorf 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blackbyrds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
Porter Ricks,
8 Eyed Spy,
Theoretical Girls,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Fatback Band,
Kas Product,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bobby Sherman,
Darondo,
The Stooges,
Ludus,
Kenny Larkin,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Graham Central Station,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Los Fastidios,
Can,
Avey Tare,
Albert Ayler,
Moss Icon,
Prince Buster,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Saints,
Deepchord,
The Buckinghams,
Tres Demented,
Sex Pistols,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Nico,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Tremeloes,
Tim Buckley,
Yusef Lateef,
Scan 7,
Sonic Youth,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Saccharine Trust,
Marcia Griffiths,
10cc,
L. Decosne,
Mantronix,
Cybotron,
Mary Jane Girls,
Moby Grape,
Lyres,
China Crisis,
Eric Dolphy,
The Doobie Brothers,
Rosa Yemen,
The Five Americans,
Sun City Girls,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ronan,
The Fire Engines,
Icehouse,
Jeff Lynne,
Liliput, Liliput, Liliput, Liliput.
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.