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 Chile and from Portland.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Country Joe & The Fish to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Anakelly. All the underground hits.
All Notorious Big And Bone Thugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Excepter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 a harpsichord and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Music Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delta 5,
Minor Threat,
Excepter,
Piero Umiliani,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Neil Young,
Gastr Del Sol,
Zero Boys,
Warsaw,
The Blackbyrds,
John Lydon,
The Motions,
Frankie Knuckles,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bauhaus,
Boogie Down Productions,
Swans,
Adolescents,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Marcia Griffiths,
Kenny Larkin,
Jacques Brel,
Public Enemy,
The Gap Band,
Technova,
Country Teasers,
Black Moon,
Rufus Thomas,
Alton Ellis,
The Grass Roots,
Mars,
Scratch Acid,
Pylon,
Shoche,
Dual Sessions,
John Cale,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Buckinghams,
Fatback Band,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Radiohead,
Skriet,
Mo-Dettes,
Peter and Kerry,
The Dave Clark Five,
Harpers Bizarre,
Yusef Lateef,
Warren Ellis,
Josef K,
cv313,
Tubeway Army,
The Smoke,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Electric Prunes,
The Martian,
The Fuzztones,
The Fire Engines,
June of 44,
World's Most,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Unwound,
Fluxion, Fluxion, Fluxion, Fluxion.
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.