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 Venezuela and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 linndrum 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 The Names to the rock 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 The Divine Comedy. All the underground hits.
All Boredoms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nirvana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gastr Del Sol,
Fugazi,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Oneida,
Barry Ungar,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Sugar Minott,
Fatback Band,
Brand Nubian,
Cameo,
Joe Smooth,
The United States of America,
The Zeros,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Shadows of Knight,
Negative Approach,
Erasure,
Rosa Yemen,
X-Ray Spex,
Eli Mardock,
K-Klass,
Pagans,
Zero Boys,
Blake Baxter,
Icehouse,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Monolake,
Kayak,
Danielle Patucci,
Nas,
Leonard Cohen,
Banda Bassotti,
Malaria!,
Rhythm & Sound,
kango's stein massive,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Yusef Lateef,
Brothers Johnson,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Stooges,
MC5,
Robert Görl,
Au Pairs,
The Cowsills,
The Kinks,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Alton Ellis,
Mark Hollis,
Bluetip,
Dawn Penn,
Byron Stingily,
Half Japanese,
Surgeon,
The Standells,
Magma,
The Blackbyrds,
Livin' Joy,
Eve St. Jones,
Con Funk Shun,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5.
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.