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 Indonesia and from Delhi.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 808 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 Durutti Column to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Fifty Foot Hose. All the underground hits.
All Iggy Pop tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Loose Ends record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Beau Brummels record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yazoo,
Fad Gadget,
The Zeros,
The New Christs,
Morten Harket,
John Coltrane,
Flipper,
The Happenings,
Rakim,
New York Dolls,
Bizarre Inc.,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Fuzztones,
Funky Four + One,
Public Enemy,
The Wake,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Livin' Joy,
Crooked Eye,
Gabor Szabo,
The Doors,
John Lydon,
Thompson Twins,
The Detroit Cobras,
the Swans,
The Techniques,
Sugar Minott,
Roger Hodgson,
Ponytail,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Pere Ubu,
Gang Green,
Sexual Harrassment,
Wasted Youth,
The Fire Engines,
Charles Mingus,
Kerri Chandler,
Throbbing Gristle,
Nirvana,
Tubeway Army,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Moby Grape,
Youth Brigade,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Human League,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Max Romeo,
cv313,
Kaleidoscope,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Minor Threat,
Kool Moe Dee,
Pantytec,
DJ Sneak,
Ice-T,
R.M.O.,
Fela Kuti,
Moebius,
The Shadows of Knight,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.