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 Micronesia and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
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 The Dave Clark Five to the disco 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 Man Eating Sloth. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker + Sunn O))) tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Manfred Mann's Earth Band 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Human League record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Whodini,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Mary Jane Girls,
the Soft Cell,
Sonny Sharrock,
Rotary Connection,
Eve St. Jones,
Minnie Riperton,
Dual Sessions,
Chris Corsano,
Simply Red,
Royal Trux,
Warren Ellis,
Ronan,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ornette Coleman,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Doors,
Agent Orange,
Wire,
Agitation Free,
Minutemen,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Donny Hathaway,
Dark Day,
Accadde A,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Procol Harum,
Sixth Finger,
The Gories,
OOIOO,
Connie Case,
Bad Manners,
Brick,
Gabor Szabo,
The Vogues,
Glenn Branca,
The Detroit Cobras,
Scratch Acid,
The Cure,
The Evens,
Lower 48,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Sight & Sound,
The Invisible,
Guru Guru,
Amon Düül II,
Drive Like Jehu,
Groovy Waters,
Camberwell Now,
Saccharine Trust,
Cheater Slicks,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Marc Almond,
The Move,
Con Funk Shun,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Jacob Miller,
The Alarm Clocks,
Josef K,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Flamin' Groovies,
Rapeman,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.