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 Burkina and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 rhodes 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 Lightning Bolt to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Stiv Bators. All the underground hits.
All The Dead C tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Manfred Mann's Earth Band 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masters at Work record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
In Retrospect,
The Angels of Light,
Gregory Isaacs,
One Last Wish,
Main Source,
Television Personalities,
Neu!,
Urselle,
Lou Christie,
Young Marble Giants,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Camberwell Now,
DNA,
The Move,
Delon & Dalcan,
Von Mondo,
the Normal,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Soul Sonic Force,
Byron Stingily,
a-ha,
The Knickerbockers,
PIL,
the Human League,
Hoover,
The Vogues,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Nirvana,
Panda Bear,
The Saints,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
John Cale,
EPMD,
The Seeds,
the Soft Cell,
The Cramps,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Eve St. Jones,
Shoche,
The Real Kids,
Quando Quango,
Jeff Mills,
The Busters,
The Raincoats,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Bobby Womack,
OOIOO,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Fortunes,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
John Lydon,
Ohio Players,
E-Dancer,
Livin' Joy,
Second Layer,
Althea and Donna,
John Coltrane,
Nik Kershaw,
Sight & Sound,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Remains,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.