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 Haiti and from Mexico City.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Johannesburg.
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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Icehouse to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Ronan. All the underground hits.
All Icehouse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Sherman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barbara Tucker,
ABC,
Desert Stars,
Interpol,
The Standells,
The Martian,
Kerri Chandler,
B.T. Express,
Bronski Beat,
Stereo Dub,
Sonic Youth,
Erykah Badu,
Jimmy McGriff,
U.S. Maple,
Barrington Levy,
The Star Department,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Joensuu 1685,
Hardrive,
Roxette,
The Fortunes,
Harry Pussy,
Cybotron,
The Seeds,
Nick Fraelich,
Shuggie Otis,
Q and Not U,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Fall,
the Normal,
David Bowie,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Joe Finger,
Anthony Braxton,
a-ha,
Agitation Free,
Wasted Youth,
Lee Hazlewood,
Slave,
John Foxx,
Connie Case,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Von Mondo,
Tubeway Army,
Blossom Toes,
Harmonia,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Count Five,
Siglo XX,
Soul II Soul,
Moss Icon,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Brand Nubian,
Neil Young,
The Techniques,
The Doobie Brothers,
Nirvana,
Hasil Adkins,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Amazonics,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo.
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.