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 Tuvalu and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the oboe 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 Neu! to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All The Knickerbockers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Görl record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jawbox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young,
Henry Cow,
Scientists,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Panda Bear,
Masters at Work,
Delta 5,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Godley & Creme,
Joe Smooth,
48th St. Collective,
Public Image Ltd.,
Terry Callier,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ohio Players,
Man Eating Sloth,
Soul Sonic Force,
Bobby Byrd,
Y Pants,
Kool Moe Dee,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Gun Club,
Brick,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Supertramp,
Minutemen,
Porter Ricks,
David Axelrod,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Crash Course in Science,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Absolute Body Control,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Shadows of Knight,
Von Mondo,
Iggy Pop,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Blackbyrds,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Magazine,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Avey Tare,
Slick Rick,
Babytalk,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Cowsills,
Peter and Kerry,
Rotary Connection,
Aloha Tigers,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
New Order,
Essential Logic,
Joyce Sims,
Fluxion,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Unrelated Segments,
FM Einheit,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One.
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.