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 Guinea-Bissau and from Toronto.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the linndrum 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 New Age Steppers to the techno 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 Young Marble Giants. All the underground hits.
All Fat Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Major Organ And The Adding Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Toasters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Nick Fraelich,
The Vogues,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Aloha Tigers,
a-ha,
The Remains,
Alton Ellis,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Niagra,
The Divine Comedy,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Trojans,
Maurizio,
Grandmaster Flash,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Bluetip,
Interpol,
Joe Smooth,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Joy Division,
Lucky Dragons,
H. Thieme,
Pere Ubu,
Massinfluence,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Smog,
Livin' Joy,
Bobby Womack,
Crispian St. Peters,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Pop Group,
Porter Ricks,
The Moleskins,
The Dead C,
Harmonia,
The Tremeloes,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Matthew Halsall,
Slick Rick,
Mandrill,
Chrome,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Main Source,
Iggy Pop,
Cameo,
The American Breed,
Ornette Coleman,
Skarface,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lyres,
DJ Sneak,
Janne Schatter,
Sarah Menescal,
Bizarre Inc.,
Panda Bear,
the Swans,
Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill.
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.