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 Mauritania and from Accra.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Bush Tetras to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Scrapy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Swans,
Rotary Connection,
Aswad,
Alphaville,
Masters at Work,
Sixth Finger,
Underground Resistance,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Althea and Donna,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Boredoms,
Marshall Jefferson,
Quando Quango,
One Last Wish,
Fat Boys,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Joe Finger,
Television,
Funky Four + One,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Nik Kershaw,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Kinks,
The Saints,
The Selecter,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Tim Buckley,
Second Layer,
Rites of Spring,
Thee Headcoats,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Kayak,
the Fania All-Stars,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Eden Ahbez,
The Durutti Column,
Make Up,
Bizarre Inc.,
Shoche,
Nirvana,
Aural Exciters,
Amon Düül II,
The Gap Band,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Pretty Things,
Malaria!,
Reuben Wilson,
Fluxion,
The Mummies,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
B.T. Express,
The Electric Prunes,
Scan 7,
Little Man,
Terrestrial Tones,
Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff.
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.