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 Zimbabwe and from New York.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the organ 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 Bad Manners to the rap 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 OOIOO. All the underground hits.
All Accadde A tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dave Gahan 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moss Icon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joyce Sims,
Joe Finger,
Organ,
Quando Quango,
Q and Not U,
The Flesh Eaters,
Unwound,
Ultimate Spinach,
Grey Daturas,
Judy Mowatt,
Vainqueur,
Bobby Hutcherson,
John Coltrane,
The Young Rascals,
Susan Cadogan,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Technova,
Cybotron,
Anakelly,
The Smiths,
Oneida,
Altered Images,
X-101,
Boz Scaggs,
Accadde A,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sandy B,
Spandau Ballet,
Camberwell Now,
Mo-Dettes,
Brand Nubian,
Clear Light,
Ludus,
Sonny Sharrock,
Shuggie Otis,
Sight & Sound,
Chrome,
The Real Kids,
The Beau Brummels,
In Retrospect,
Nils Olav,
The Zeros,
Arcadia,
Electric Light Orchestra,
the Human League,
The Sound,
Model 500,
Pulsallama,
the Soft Cell,
Radio Birdman,
Moebius,
Rakim,
Circle Jerks,
The Victims,
Sun City Girls,
The Associates,
T.S.O.L.,
Public Enemy,
James White and The Blacks,
B.T. Express,
Don Cherry,
The New Christs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.