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 Kyrgyzstan and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Sun City Girls to the grime 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 Deadbeat. All the underground hits.
All Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warsaw record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantaleimon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Don Cherry,
Fugazi,
Hardrive,
Byron Stingily,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Smiths,
MC5,
Alphaville,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Brick,
Ultimate Spinach,
Joe Smooth,
Hashim,
Suburban Knight,
LL Cool J,
Babytalk,
Hoover,
Crash Course in Science,
Anakelly,
The Pretty Things,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Das Ding,
June of 44,
Morten Harket,
8 Eyed Spy,
Brand Nubian,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Techniques,
The Evens,
10cc,
Josef K,
Mantronix,
Public Enemy,
Bill Near,
Chris Corsano,
Alison Limerick,
Masters at Work,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
X-102,
Sixth Finger,
Popol Vuh,
The Index,
The Vogues,
Absolute Body Control,
Moby Grape,
Erykah Badu,
Soul II Soul,
The Cure,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Kerri Chandler,
Ronnie Foster,
Electric Light Orchestra,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Gang of Four,
Kaleidoscope,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Ornette Coleman,
DJ Style,
China Crisis,
Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers.
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.