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 Samoa and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Portland.
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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the oboe 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 Grass Roots to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Colin Newman. All the underground hits.
All The Motions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a FM Einheit record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
Slick Rick,
Brand Nubian,
Au Pairs,
Steve Hackett,
Ossler,
Patti Smith,
Isaac Hayes,
Little Man,
the Soft Cell,
Interpol,
UT,
Jerry's Kids,
The Shadows of Knight,
The J.B.'s,
Hot Snakes,
Essential Logic,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Gladiators,
Ultimate Spinach,
Camouflage,
The Kinks,
X-101,
Newcleus,
Motorama,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Cymande,
Goldenarms,
Eli Mardock,
Curtis Mayfield,
Al Stewart,
Outsiders,
Kas Product,
The Fortunes,
Gastr Del Sol,
KRS-One,
Marcia Griffiths,
Zapp,
Crime,
The Real Kids,
Soft Machine,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Man Parrish,
The Moody Blues,
FM Einheit,
Massinfluence,
Supertramp,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pagans,
Throbbing Gristle,
Leonard Cohen,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Last Poets,
Carl Craig,
Altered Images,
Eden Ahbez,
Josef K,
Panda Bear,
The Residents,
kango's stein massive,
Crooked Eye, Crooked Eye, Crooked Eye, Crooked Eye.
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.