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 Philippines and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 synthesizer 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 Lucky Dragons to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Slits. All the underground hits.
All Jeru the Damaja tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rapeman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quando Quango,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bobby Womack,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sun City Girls,
Pantaleimon,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Radiopuhelimet,
Altered Images,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Todd Terry,
Gang Starr,
Roger Hodgson,
Soft Machine,
Peter and Kerry,
OOIOO,
The Invisible,
Marcia Griffiths,
Procol Harum,
Unwound,
Zapp,
Pole,
E-Dancer,
The Monochrome Set,
Big Daddy Kane,
Essential Logic,
Bootsy Collins,
Grey Daturas,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Can,
the Fania All-Stars,
Wasted Youth,
Matthew Halsall,
Morten Harket,
La Düsseldorf,
Charles Mingus,
Bush Tetras,
Crispian St. Peters,
Au Pairs,
Mars,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Liliput,
Lakeside,
June Days,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Isaac Hayes,
Moby Grape,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Patti Smith,
Hashim,
Franke,
Jawbox,
One Last Wish,
The Selecter,
Ken Boothe,
The Busters,
Nik Kershaw,
Black Moon,
CMW,
The Dave Clark Five,
Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys.
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.