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 Honduras and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 linndrum 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 Duran Duran to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap. All the underground hits.
All Marvin Gaye tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Neon Judgement record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes 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,
Maleditus Sound,
Harry Pussy,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Hoover,
Nick Fraelich,
10cc,
Harmonia,
Sight & Sound,
The Gap Band,
The Neon Judgement,
Franke,
T.S.O.L.,
the Human League,
Jesper Dahlback,
Deadbeat,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Cowsills,
Ronan,
Don Cherry,
Soulsonic Force,
Moss Icon,
Albert Ayler,
Rhythm & Sound,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Prince Buster,
Susan Cadogan,
The Residents,
Fifty Foot Hose,
the Sonics,
The Barracudas,
Brick,
UT,
Darondo,
The Velvet Underground,
Flamin' Groovies,
Newcleus,
The New Christs,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Gregory Isaacs,
Echospace,
the Swans,
Faraquet,
Mission of Burma,
T. Rex,
John Holt,
Bob Dylan,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Soul II Soul,
Loose Ends,
Graham Central Station,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Peter & Gordon,
New Order,
Deakin,
Kerri Chandler,
In Retrospect,
LL Cool J,
The United States of America,
Porter Ricks,
Scan 7,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Oneida, Oneida, Oneida, Oneida.
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.