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 Luxembourg and from Tokyo.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Sparks to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap. All the underground hits.
All The Raincoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Theoretical Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Josef K record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lakeside,
Unwound,
Donny Hathaway,
Laurel Aitken,
Sonic Youth,
Carl Craig,
Youth Brigade,
Archie Shepp,
Stetsasonic,
Derrick May,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
the Association,
the Normal,
Steve Hackett,
Model 500,
Inner City,
Magazine,
Joe Finger,
Wally Richardson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Electric Prunes,
X-101,
Rakim,
The Residents,
Scientists,
D'Angelo,
Cal Tjader,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Marvin Gaye,
Little Man,
Todd Rundgren,
Reagan Youth,
The Moleskins,
Ohio Players,
Fela Kuti,
Arcadia,
Scan 7,
Icehouse,
Niagra,
Kevin Saunderson,
Harmonia,
Soulsonic Force,
Pussy Galore,
The Grass Roots,
The Fall,
Boogie Down Productions,
Rekid,
The Electric Prunes,
Dorothy Ashby,
Schoolly D,
These Immortal Souls,
Delta 5,
Cymande,
Delon & Dalcan,
Idris Muhammad,
Howard Jones,
The Wake,
Thee Headcoats,
Traffic Nightmare,
Henry Cow,
Crash Course in Science,
Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks.
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.