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 Guatemala and from Copenhagen.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 arpeggiator 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 Mary Jane Girls to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 cv313. All the underground hits.
All Selector Dub Narcotic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Smog record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
8 Eyed Spy,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
James White and The Blacks,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Minor Threat,
Nation of Ulysses,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Fall,
Scion,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Andrew Hill,
Lebanon Hanover,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Supertramp,
The Saints,
X-102,
Mary Jane Girls,
Index,
The Pop Group,
Minny Pops,
The Fuzztones,
Skarface,
The Dave Clark Five,
Gang Green,
Soulsonic Force,
Heaven 17,
the Soft Cell,
Rhythm & Sound,
Terry Callier,
Jesper Dahlback,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ralphi Rosario,
New Order,
Wasted Youth,
Unwound,
Bootsy Collins,
Duran Duran,
Rosa Yemen,
The Walker Brothers,
Siglo XX,
Jeru the Damaja,
Soft Cell,
Agent Orange,
Idris Muhammad,
Prince Buster,
Ten City,
Desert Stars,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Moody Blues,
David Bowie,
Anthony Braxton,
Technova,
Harmonia,
Cluster,
Swell Maps,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Bill Near,
The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine.
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.