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 Grenada and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 rhodes 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 Peter and Kerry to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Maleditus Sound. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Royal Family And The Poor 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marshall Jefferson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moebius,
Vladislav Delay,
Chris & Cosey,
Gang of Four,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Moby Grape,
Das Ding,
The Wake,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Don Cherry,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Gong,
Bluetip,
Amon Düül,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Gories,
Flash Fearless,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Monolake,
Maleditus Sound,
The Music Machine,
U.S. Maple,
The Evens,
Bobby Sherman,
The Mojo Men,
Avey Tare,
Youth Brigade,
Stereo Dub,
Pierre Henry,
Unwound,
Erasure,
Echospace,
Gastr Del Sol,
Laurel Aitken,
Rod Modell,
Lyres,
Harry Pussy,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Sexual Harrassment,
X-Ray Spex,
Kerri Chandler,
Bobby Womack,
The Tremeloes,
JFA,
The Leaves,
Underground Resistance,
Tropical Tobacco,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ornette Coleman,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Audionom,
Steve Hackett,
Fugazi,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Juan Atkins,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Doobie Brothers,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Fuzztones,
Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman.
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.