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 Kiribati and from Johannesburg.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar 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 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Guru Guru tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Depeche Mode,
The Kinks,
The J.B.'s,
Isaac Hayes,
The Electric Prunes,
Letta Mbulu,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Minny Pops,
Aaron Thompson,
The Residents,
Man Parrish,
Scientists,
Jacob Miller,
Mad Mike,
Nico,
Cybotron,
Yellowson,
Tomorrow,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Eric Copeland,
Danielle Patucci,
Frankie Knuckles,
Robert Wyatt,
Mr. Review,
Newcleus,
DJ Style,
8 Eyed Spy,
Rakim,
Livin' Joy,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Modern Lovers,
X-101,
Morten Harket,
The Young Rascals,
Soulsonic Force,
Black Pus,
Funkadelic,
KRS-One,
Blake Baxter,
Hashim,
Patti Smith,
Bluetip,
World's Most,
Television,
Bill Wells,
Symarip,
In Retrospect,
Warsaw,
The New Christs,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Leaves,
The Pretty Things,
Erasure,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
PIL,
Quadrant,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
the Swans,
Lower 48,
The Searchers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
EPMD, EPMD, EPMD, EPMD.
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.