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 Kosovo and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch to the disco 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 Barbara Tucker. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Qualms 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxy Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fatback Band,
Symarip,
Young Marble Giants,
Warsaw,
Sonic Youth,
Lower 48,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
L. Decosne,
Rapeman,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eli Mardock,
World's Most,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Trojans,
Magazine,
The Sonics,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Joy Division,
T. Rex,
FM Einheit,
Stetsasonic,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Red Krayola,
Vladislav Delay,
The Kinks,
The Index,
KRS-One,
Masters at Work,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bizarre Inc.,
Newcleus,
Marmalade,
Crispian St. Peters,
Circle Jerks,
The Smiths,
Malaria!,
Ralphi Rosario,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Excepter,
cv313,
Matthew Halsall,
Shuggie Otis,
The Smoke,
Marine Girls,
The Gap Band,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Camberwell Now,
Kayak,
Leonard Cohen,
DJ Style,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Talk Talk,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Offenders,
Peter and Kerry,
Todd Rundgren,
EPMD, EPMD, EPMD, EPMD.
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.