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 Barbados and from Delhi.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 organ 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 Byron Stingily 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 Susan Cadogan. All the underground hits.
All The Music Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Little Man 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Beau Brummels record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Minutemen,
Saccharine Trust,
Quadrant,
Boogie Down Productions,
Crispy Ambulance,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Newcleus,
The Searchers,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Bobby Womack,
Eric Dolphy,
Juan Atkins,
Sandy B,
Mo-Dettes,
Jeff Lynne,
Cymande,
John Foxx,
Unrelated Segments,
Donny Hathaway,
Bobby Byrd,
Carl Craig,
LL Cool J,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Reuben Wilson,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Soul Sonic Force,
Clear Light,
Deepchord,
Jacob Miller,
The Gories,
Terry Callier,
The Tremeloes,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Cecil Taylor,
Eden Ahbez,
The Gladiators,
Tom Boy,
New York Dolls,
The Fuzztones,
Negative Approach,
Sarah Menescal,
Sister Nancy,
Absolute Body Control,
Marshall Jefferson,
Flipper,
Frankie Knuckles,
Crispian St. Peters,
T.S.O.L.,
Von Mondo,
Young Marble Giants,
Stiv Bators,
Pylon,
Scion,
Neil Young,
Radio Birdman,
Bush Tetras,
Fad Gadget,
Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope.
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.