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 Cambodia and from Shanghai.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Tears for Fears to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Tears for Fears. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stiv Bators 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rites of Spring record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxette,
Arab on Radar,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Vainqueur,
ABC,
Throbbing Gristle,
Absolute Body Control,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sarah Menescal,
Bootsy Collins,
Essential Logic,
Trumans Water,
The Moody Blues,
Jandek,
Goldenarms,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Los Fastidios,
Roger Hodgson,
Desert Stars,
Funky Four + One,
The Motions,
Marine Girls,
Sound Behaviour,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Yellowson,
Swell Maps,
Iggy Pop,
The Techniques,
Connie Case,
Cecil Taylor,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Bronski Beat,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Massinfluence,
The Zeros,
Avey Tare,
China Crisis,
The Angels of Light,
Amon Düül,
The J.B.'s,
Drive Like Jehu,
Agent Orange,
Smog,
Faraquet,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Tremeloes,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Shadows of Knight,
Ten City,
Grauzone,
The Electric Prunes,
Blossom Toes,
Skriet,
Byron Stingily,
Curtis Mayfield,
Television Personalities,
DJ Sneak,
the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.
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.