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 Gabon and from Accra.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Lou Reed to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Mojo Men. All the underground hits.
All Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Darondo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moleskins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Germs,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Japan,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
the Soft Cell,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Skarface,
Fela Kuti,
Q and Not U,
Nation of Ulysses,
Faraquet,
The Divine Comedy,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Alison Limerick,
Blake Baxter,
Steve Hackett,
Todd Terry,
Archie Shepp,
The Motions,
The Count Five,
the Association,
New Order,
Make Up,
Aloha Tigers,
Audionom,
Joyce Sims,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Hardrive,
Tres Demented,
Arab on Radar,
Rakim,
Tropical Tobacco,
8 Eyed Spy,
Eric Copeland,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Bluetip,
The Selecter,
Heaven 17,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Minny Pops,
Barbara Tucker,
Moby Grape,
The Cramps,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Soft Cell,
OOIOO,
Mo-Dettes,
Subhumans,
Joensuu 1685,
Eddi Front,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Iggy Pop,
The Saints,
Oneida,
Janne Schatter,
Schoolly D,
Reagan Youth,
The Index,
The Invisible,
China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis.
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.