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 Singapore and from Spokane.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the marimba 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 Marmalade to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Lalo Schifrin. All the underground hits.
All Camberwell Now tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Fania All-Stars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a China Crisis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
Rod Modell,
The Five Americans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Reagan Youth,
Scan 7,
The Tremeloes,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sonny Sharrock,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
JFA,
Big Daddy Kane,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Deadbeat,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Harmonia,
Young Marble Giants,
E-Dancer,
Mantronix,
Eddi Front,
Henry Cow,
The Smiths,
Rekid,
Glambeats Corp.,
Junior Murvin,
Pet Shop Boys,
MC5,
June Days,
Derrick May,
DNA,
Bang On A Can,
Arab on Radar,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Mars,
Accadde A,
Donald Byrd,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Radiohead,
Graham Central Station,
The Doors,
Organ,
Barclay James Harvest,
Tears for Fears,
Radio Birdman,
Juan Atkins,
Unrelated Segments,
PIL,
Ice-T,
Gang Gang Dance,
Terry Callier,
Anthony Braxton,
Gabor Szabo,
T. Rex,
Sun Ra,
Brand Nubian,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Gerry Rafferty,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Motions,
Youth Brigade,
Freddie Wadling, Freddie Wadling, Freddie Wadling, Freddie Wadling.
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.