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 South Sudan 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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Bobby Byrd. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Duran Duran record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy's Rubber Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tres Demented,
Can,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Piero Umiliani,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
X-101,
K-Klass,
Hardrive,
John Coltrane,
ABBA,
Cameo,
Roxette,
In Retrospect,
Section 25,
DNA,
Zapp,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Joensuu 1685,
Black Sheep,
Rufus Thomas,
The Human League,
Desert Stars,
Lightning Bolt,
Anakelly,
Oblivians,
Inner City,
The Vogues,
Metal Thangz,
The Modern Lovers,
Spoonie Gee,
The Doobie Brothers,
Agent Orange,
Curtis Mayfield,
Dual Sessions,
Gang Green,
Quando Quango,
Second Layer,
Half Japanese,
Ice-T,
Pylon,
Yellowson,
David Axelrod,
Sexual Harrassment,
Fad Gadget,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Infiniti,
Jeff Mills,
The Misunderstood,
Stereo Dub,
Fluxion,
Freddie Wadling,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Swell Maps,
Ultra Naté,
New Age Steppers,
The Offenders,
the Normal,
Rakim,
Ohio Players,
Television Personalities,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks.
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.