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 Czech Republic and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Sao Paulo.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Strawberry Alarm Clock to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Mighty Diamonds. All the underground hits.
All Livin' Joy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Searchers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Five Americans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Panda Bear,
Soft Cell,
The Slackers,
Maurizio,
Suburban Knight,
Jeff Mills,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Maleditus Sound,
The Evens,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Vainqueur,
The Beau Brummels,
Essential Logic,
Anakelly,
Matthew Halsall,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Zero Boys,
The Gun Club,
Black Flag,
Quadrant,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Grauzone,
Alton Ellis,
Wire,
Joe Smooth,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lee Hazlewood,
Delta 5,
Kevin Saunderson,
Minor Threat,
Niagra,
The Saints,
Heaven 17,
Tom Boy,
Barrington Levy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Q65,
Ornette Coleman,
Pere Ubu,
Iggy Pop,
X-102,
Sällskapet,
Siglo XX,
Ultravox,
The Count Five,
KRS-One,
Pagans,
Magazine,
Intrusion,
The American Breed,
Ice-T,
Bill Near,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Misunderstood,
The Detroit Cobras,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Fugazi,
CMW,
Model 500,
The Pop Group,
Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys.
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.