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 Ghana 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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 MC5 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 Louis and Bebe Barron. All the underground hits.
All Model 500 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crash Course in Science record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sly & The Family Stone,
Audionom,
Kerri Chandler,
Davy DMX,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sonic Youth,
Leonard Cohen,
JFA,
The Alarm Clocks,
Fat Boys,
Eddi Front,
The Stooges,
Silicon Teens,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Spandau Ballet,
The Move,
Lalo Schifrin,
Delon & Dalcan,
Moss Icon,
Graham Central Station,
Alice Coltrane,
Barrington Levy,
New Order,
Q and Not U,
Susan Cadogan,
Rod Modell,
Niagra,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Morten Harket,
Avey Tare,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dark Day,
Alphaville,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Cramps,
Bobby Womack,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Stereo Dub,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tubeway Army,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Lou Reed,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Public Image Ltd.,
Josef K,
Boz Scaggs,
Alison Limerick,
the Soft Cell,
The Count Five,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Peter & Gordon,
The Fire Engines,
Maurizio,
OOIOO,
Donald Byrd,
Blossom Toes,
The Victims,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Mummies,
F. McDonald,
Absolute Body Control,
Deakin, Deakin, Deakin, Deakin.
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.