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 Austria and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 sitar 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 Smog to the rock 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 Sonic Youth. All the underground hits.
All Television tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Little Man 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DJ Sneak 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?
Visage,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Zero Boys,
Sun Ra,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lungfish,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Eli Mardock,
Fat Boys,
the Bar-Kays,
Frankie Knuckles,
Lou Christie,
The Walker Brothers,
Negative Approach,
Gong,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Pretty Things,
Neil Young,
Prince Buster,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Pagans,
Pierre Henry,
Derrick Morgan,
The Saints,
The Cure,
Lalann,
Jerry's Kids,
Ultra Naté,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The J.B.'s,
E-Dancer,
X-102,
Amon Düül,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Sound,
Wings,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Busters,
Connie Case,
Monolake,
The Gun Club,
The New Christs,
Royal Trux,
The Offenders,
Blossom Toes,
The Misunderstood,
Shuggie Otis,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Neon Judgement,
Eric Dolphy,
Harry Pussy,
Mad Mike,
The Residents,
Monks,
Thee Headcoats,
The Cowsills,
Black Moon,
Lucky Dragons,
Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby.
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.