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 Samoa and from Woodstock.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
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 CMW to the punk 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 Lightning Bolt. All the underground hits.
All Inner City tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q65 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Archie Shepp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Drexciya,
Rosa Yemen,
The Trojans,
Gang Starr,
The Evens,
Soulsonic Force,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dual Sessions,
X-102,
Bill Near,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Average White Band,
Barrington Levy,
Rakim,
Nico,
The Associates,
Black Pus,
EPMD,
Minnie Riperton,
Cluster,
Charles Mingus,
The Misunderstood,
Nils Olav,
Stiv Bators,
Blancmange,
Shoche,
Moby Grape,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lucky Dragons,
Ten City,
Depeche Mode,
Jacob Miller,
Lower 48,
Colin Newman,
Minutemen,
Grey Daturas,
Girls At Our Best!,
Joensuu 1685,
Rod Modell,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Arcadia,
Royal Trux,
Mad Mike,
The Cure,
Ralphi Rosario,
Fela Kuti,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Pantaleimon,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Reuben Wilson,
H. Thieme,
The Names,
John Lydon,
Fugazi,
Pulsallama,
Bluetip,
Jawbox,
Barbara Tucker,
Slave, Slave, Slave, Slave.
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.