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 Slovenia and from Delhi.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 marimba 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 Joe Smooth to the jazz 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 Roxette. All the underground hits.
All Silicon Teens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bob Dylan 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gories record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Adolescents,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Alton Ellis,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Last Poets,
CMW,
Pole,
Dual Sessions,
Alice Coltrane,
The Raincoats,
Khruangbin,
The Wake,
Aural Exciters,
Barry Ungar,
The Gladiators,
Donny Hathaway,
The Cowsills,
Freddie Wadling,
Quando Quango,
Cybotron,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lightning Bolt,
Prince Buster,
Marcia Griffiths,
Babytalk,
Mission of Burma,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Nico,
Reuben Wilson,
Sun Ra,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Arcadia,
Fear,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Absolute Body Control,
Amon Düül II,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The New Christs,
Tom Boy,
The Music Machine,
The Human League,
The American Breed,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Gun Club,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Monks,
Pierre Henry,
H. Thieme,
Audionom,
Max Romeo,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Kenny Larkin,
Wally Richardson,
Delta 5,
Joe Smooth,
the Soft Cell,
The Fuzztones,
Severed Heads,
Maurizio,
David Axelrod,
Joy Division, Joy Division, Joy Division, Joy Division.
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.