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 Romania and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 marimba 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 Connie Case to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Sad Lovers and Giants. All the underground hits.
All E-Dancer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Maleditus Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Judy Mowatt,
The Wake,
Marvin Gaye,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Stetsasonic,
The Fortunes,
Dennis Brown,
Shuggie Otis,
Black Flag,
Desert Stars,
Agent Orange,
Fatback Band,
Metal Thangz,
Lyres,
Smog,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Camouflage,
Arab on Radar,
The Techniques,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Zapp,
Tommy Roe,
Brass Construction,
The Count Five,
Ice-T,
The Stooges,
Gong,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Todd Rundgren,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Cameo,
The Cramps,
Glenn Branca,
The Flesh Eaters,
Qualms,
the Association,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Derrick May,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Sonics,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Peter & Gordon,
Moebius,
Suburban Knight,
Average White Band,
Joe Smooth,
Quando Quango,
Delta 5,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Mo-Dettes,
Scrapy,
Brothers Johnson,
Sister Nancy,
Patti Smith,
Hot Snakes,
Max Romeo,
the Germs,
Pere Ubu,
Sugar Minott,
Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew.
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.