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 the UAE and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Toronto.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Infiniti to the disco 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 Todd Terry. All the underground hits.
All Joe Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dead Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neil Young & Crazy Horse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lightning Bolt,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Von Mondo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Mo-Dettes,
CMW,
Boz Scaggs,
The Fire Engines,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Black Moon,
Altered Images,
Livin' Joy,
Danielle Patucci,
Brand Nubian,
Mars,
Brothers Johnson,
Eurythmics,
Soul II Soul,
Franke,
Tom Boy,
Agitation Free,
10cc,
Fatback Band,
Television,
Pantytec,
The Music Machine,
Maleditus Sound,
Tim Buckley,
Lalo Schifrin,
Roxy Music,
The Alarm Clocks,
KRS-One,
The Index,
Grey Daturas,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
the Sonics,
Silicon Teens,
Niagra,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Make Up,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lyres,
Todd Rundgren,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
R.M.O.,
Charles Mingus,
B.T. Express,
MDC,
Lower 48,
New Age Steppers,
La Düsseldorf,
Amazonics,
Yazoo,
Sonic Youth,
LL Cool J,
Babytalk,
Ralphi Rosario,
Jawbox,
Connie Case,
Skarface,
Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin.
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.