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 Macedonia and from London.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 organ 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 Deepchord to the jazz 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 The Techniques. All the underground hits.
All Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tears for Fears record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swell Maps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mighty Diamonds,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sun Ra,
The Gap Band,
Sarah Menescal,
the Sonics,
Letta Mbulu,
Jacob Miller,
Dennis Brown,
The Gories,
Pussy Galore,
Danielle Patucci,
Metal Thangz,
Television,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sexual Harrassment,
Bronski Beat,
Moby Grape,
Flamin' Groovies,
Cluster,
Swell Maps,
The Count Five,
Jandek,
The Slits,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Leaves,
Ultimate Spinach,
Radiopuhelimet,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
New Age Steppers,
The Barracudas,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Flipper,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Fatback Band,
Siglo XX,
Sparks,
Gang Gang Dance,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Cowsills,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Skaos,
The Knickerbockers,
World's Most,
Yaz,
The Blackbyrds,
Hot Snakes,
Soulsonic Force,
Bush Tetras,
Rufus Thomas,
Freddie Wadling,
Derrick Morgan,
Icehouse,
Soul II Soul,
Aloha Tigers,
D'Angelo,
Aaron Thompson,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs.
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.