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 Malta 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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 DNA to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Organ. All the underground hits.
All The Seeds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bad Manners 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mummies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Royal Trux,
Boz Scaggs,
Average White Band,
Subhumans,
Cheater Slicks,
Susan Cadogan,
Essential Logic,
The Alarm Clocks,
Eurythmics,
Clear Light,
The Cowsills,
Schoolly D,
The Blackbyrds,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ice-T,
The Moody Blues,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Tim Buckley,
Cymande,
The Barracudas,
Robert Görl,
Glambeats Corp.,
JFA,
Arthur Verocai,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Suburban Knight,
Alice Coltrane,
Young Marble Giants,
Rotary Connection,
Monolake,
Television,
The Leaves,
Erasure,
The Associates,
Jandek,
Joy Division,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Ossler,
cv313,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Tubeway Army,
Drexciya,
The Litter,
the Bar-Kays,
The Sound,
Sun Ra,
The Young Rascals,
Fat Boys,
Monks,
Minor Threat,
Glenn Branca,
James White and The Blacks,
The Mojo Men,
Rapeman,
Mo-Dettes,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.