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 Syria and from Tokyo.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Shanghai.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 CMW to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 AZ. All the underground hits.
All Crime tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiopuhelimet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boogie Down Productions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Be Bop Deluxe,
Marmalade,
Scratch Acid,
The Dirtbombs,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Smog,
Excepter,
OOIOO,
The Slits,
Dark Day,
Erykah Badu,
Tropical Tobacco,
AZ,
Organ,
Lungfish,
The Electric Prunes,
Magma,
Laurel Aitken,
Pulsallama,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
X-102,
Royal Trux,
World's Most,
KRS-One,
Eden Ahbez,
Lightning Bolt,
Negative Approach,
Inner City,
Glenn Branca,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Joe Smooth,
The Leaves,
The Doors,
Boz Scaggs,
Los Fastidios,
Animal Collective,
Delon & Dalcan,
New York Dolls,
Jawbox,
Adolescents,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Sun City Girls,
The American Breed,
Nik Kershaw,
The Cure,
Max Romeo,
The Durutti Column,
Bobby Byrd,
Marc Almond,
Bronski Beat,
The Remains,
The Smoke,
Sonic Youth,
ABBA,
The Trojans,
Moby Grape,
The Gories,
Bootsy Collins,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Crooked Eye,
John Foxx,
Make Up,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.