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 Israel and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 Michael McDonald 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 American Breed. All the underground hits.
All Minor Threat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz 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 a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Axelrod record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro 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?
World's Most,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
These Immortal Souls,
The Moody Blues,
Jeff Mills,
Agent Orange,
Lee Hazlewood,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Donny Hathaway,
The Sound,
Todd Rundgren,
John Lydon,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Standells,
The Invisible,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Divine Comedy,
Unwound,
The Doobie Brothers,
Trumans Water,
Crispian St. Peters,
Aural Exciters,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Marmalade,
The Move,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Victims,
The Misunderstood,
EPMD,
Andrew Hill,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Audionom,
Funky Four + One,
A Certain Ratio,
Derrick Morgan,
Von Mondo,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Knickerbockers,
K-Klass,
The Neon Judgement,
Laurel Aitken,
Moss Icon,
Gabor Szabo,
Cecil Taylor,
Symarip,
Oneida,
The Gladiators,
Nick Fraelich,
Scan 7,
Nas,
Toni Rubio,
Sonny Sharrock,
Joe Finger,
The Electric Prunes,
Pantytec,
Sällskapet,
Magazine,
Charles Mingus,
Tears for Fears,
T. Rex,
Silicon Teens,
Hoover, Hoover, Hoover, Hoover.
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.