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 Lebanon and from Johannesburg.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Dave Clark Five to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band. All the underground hits.
All Ultravox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Clear Light record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Royal Family And The Poor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Joyce Sims,
Ultravox,
Wasted Youth,
John Lydon,
Juan Atkins,
The Red Krayola,
Electric Prunes,
The Gladiators,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Godley & Creme,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Albert Ayler,
Todd Terry,
Reuben Wilson,
Basic Channel,
Simply Red,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sexual Harrassment,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Howard Jones,
Model 500,
Dawn Penn,
Wolf Eyes,
Bill Wells,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marcia Griffiths,
R.M.O.,
Rakim,
Grauzone,
Kerri Chandler,
Lucky Dragons,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Mary Jane Girls,
Tim Buckley,
Janne Schatter,
Harpers Bizarre,
Circle Jerks,
U.S. Maple,
Ituana,
Traffic Nightmare,
X-101,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sixth Finger,
Wally Richardson,
Fear,
Rosa Yemen,
Nils Olav,
Buzzcocks,
The Skatalites,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Cluster,
The Birthday Party,
Camberwell Now,
The American Breed,
PIL,
Minutemen,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Danielle Patucci,
Mad Mike,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Black Dice, The Black Dice, The Black Dice, The Black Dice.
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.