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 Mali and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 CMW to the grime 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 The Gories. All the underground hits.
All Pole tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pulsallama record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Babytalk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television,
Lindisfarne,
Tomorrow,
Pantaleimon,
Bobby Byrd,
Mary Jane Girls,
Ronnie Foster,
Deadbeat,
The Modern Lovers,
Unwound,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dead Boys,
Lightning Bolt,
Hoover,
Pulsallama,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Fatback Band,
Cymande,
Brothers Johnson,
Rites of Spring,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Eden Ahbez,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Desert Stars,
DNA,
Lou Reed,
Stereo Dub,
Tubeway Army,
Tropical Tobacco,
Kenny Larkin,
AZ,
Black Flag,
Dave Gahan,
cv313,
The Gap Band,
Be Bop Deluxe,
X-101,
Adolescents,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Todd Rundgren,
Delon & Dalcan,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Thompson Twins,
Tears for Fears,
The Gories,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Davy DMX,
Kaleidoscope,
In Retrospect,
Boz Scaggs,
Nico,
Moby Grape,
Buzzcocks,
Duran Duran,
Y Pants,
Japan,
Essential Logic,
The Black Dice,
Altered Images,
Girls At Our Best!,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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.