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 Bahamas and from Lagos.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 guitar 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 Sarah Menescal to the crunk 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 Lakeside. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doors 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ornette Coleman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Urselle,
The Skatalites,
Technova,
Oneida,
Stetsasonic,
Gang Gang Dance,
Trumans Water,
Pole,
Second Layer,
Jerry's Kids,
Sexual Harrassment,
EPMD,
Davy DMX,
The Pop Group,
The Neon Judgement,
Animal Collective,
Skriet,
Easy Going,
Barbara Tucker,
Crash Course in Science,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Dirtbombs,
Bill Near,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Todd Rundgren,
Sixth Finger,
Swans,
The Black Dice,
Gang Green,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rufus Thomas,
Gichy Dan,
Shoche,
Stockholm Monsters,
Mo-Dettes,
Soft Cell,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Make Up,
Magazine,
MC5,
Royal Trux,
The Stooges,
CMW,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
UT,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Gap Band,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Soft Machine,
Eurythmics,
Suicide,
Grauzone,
Japan, Japan, Japan, Japan.
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.