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 Slovakia 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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Alice Coltrane to the rap 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 Joensuu 1685. All the underground hits.
All Be Bop Deluxe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every It's A Beautiful Day 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oblivians record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wire,
Gerry Rafferty,
Japan,
Pussy Galore,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Hasil Adkins,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Mantronix,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Grandmaster Flash,
Cymande,
The Walker Brothers,
Section 25,
U.S. Maple,
Delon & Dalcan,
cv313,
Quadrant,
the Bar-Kays,
Rapeman,
Scott Walker,
Lindisfarne,
Bill Near,
Marshall Jefferson,
The United States of America,
Simply Red,
The Buckinghams,
Jandek,
Thompson Twins,
Infiniti,
EPMD,
Make Up,
Negative Approach,
Alice Coltrane,
Todd Rundgren,
Mo-Dettes,
Piero Umiliani,
Bobby Womack,
Terrestrial Tones,
John Lydon,
Soft Machine,
David Axelrod,
Marmalade,
Cabaret Voltaire,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Drexciya,
Sixth Finger,
Magma,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Angry Samoans,
Soft Cell,
Magazine,
Soul II Soul,
The Grass Roots,
The Music Machine,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Michelle Simonal,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Big Daddy Kane,
MDC,
Kas Product,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.