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 Eritrea and from Philadelphia.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Jacques Brel to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Half Japanese. All the underground hits.
All Scrapy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anakelly record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
UT,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Drexciya,
Talk Talk,
Malaria!,
Radiopuhelimet,
Davy DMX,
The Dead C,
Excepter,
Arcadia,
Grandmaster Flash,
Gil Scott Heron,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Shadows of Knight,
Black Flag,
Essential Logic,
Cal Tjader,
Fugazi,
Fat Boys,
Lightning Bolt,
Todd Rundgren,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Cosmic Jokers,
L. Decosne,
Prince Buster,
Mars,
Danielle Patucci,
Lalann,
These Immortal Souls,
Rapeman,
Black Pus,
Tomorrow,
The Litter,
Newcleus,
Quantec,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lebanon Hanover,
Duran Duran,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Young Marble Giants,
Ultimate Spinach,
Altered Images,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Detroit Cobras,
Nico,
The Fortunes,
Sister Nancy,
Traffic Nightmare,
Organ,
kango's stein massive,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Massinfluence,
Pet Shop Boys,
Cameo,
Country Teasers,
Thee Headcoats,
Suicide,
Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis.
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.