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 Peru and from Glasgow.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 JFA to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Can. All the underground hits.
All Eden Ahbez tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Germs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tom Boy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Morten Harket,
Tears for Fears,
Kool Moe Dee,
Brass Construction,
Heaven 17,
Peter and Kerry,
Brand Nubian,
Amon Düül II,
Blossom Toes,
Babytalk,
Mark Hollis,
Reuben Wilson,
cv313,
Malaria!,
Quando Quango,
The Electric Prunes,
Accadde A,
The Blackbyrds,
Nick Fraelich,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Circle Jerks,
Brick,
Von Mondo,
Derrick Morgan,
Yusef Lateef,
Eurythmics,
Minnie Riperton,
Terry Callier,
Make Up,
Faust,
Tommy Roe,
The Index,
Jimmy McGriff,
Freddie Wadling,
X-102,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Ituana,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Black Pus,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Charles Mingus,
Big Daddy Kane,
the Soft Cell,
Sexual Harrassment,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Pet Shop Boys,
Alphaville,
Television Personalities,
Ronan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Wake,
Wings,
In Retrospect,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Gang of Four,
The United States of America,
Joy Division,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
New Order,
Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne.
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.