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 Serbia and from Lagos.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 808 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 Lalann to the dance 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 Lee Hazlewood. All the underground hits.
All MC5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alphaville record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moby Grape,
The Saints,
The Grass Roots,
Minutemen,
Marmalade,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Graham Central Station,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Make Up,
Fatback Band,
Dawn Penn,
The United States of America,
Davy DMX,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Babytalk,
Scan 7,
Amon Düül II,
Mantronix,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ronnie Foster,
Eric Copeland,
Dorothy Ashby,
Metal Thangz,
The Moleskins,
Bobby Womack,
Cluster,
Grauzone,
Minor Threat,
Joy Division,
Excepter,
Theoretical Girls,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
World's Most,
Massinfluence,
Patti Smith,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
B.T. Express,
Lightning Bolt,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Suburban Knight,
The Vogues,
Groovy Waters,
Con Funk Shun,
Siglo XX,
The Mummies,
In Retrospect,
Kevin Saunderson,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Bob Dylan,
Yazoo,
Rites of Spring,
The Happenings,
Liliput,
Ohio Players,
Grandmaster Flash,
Simply Red,
The Music Machine,
Cheater Slicks,
Marcia Griffiths,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.