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 Micronesia and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 rhodes 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 Sad Lovers and Giants to the rock 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 The Saints. All the underground hits.
All Rhythim Is Rhythim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alton Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skriet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
Eric Dolphy,
Lindisfarne,
Kas Product,
The Gap Band,
Joyce Sims,
Siglo XX,
Rekid,
Liliput,
Josef K,
Sonic Youth,
Heaven 17,
Dennis Brown,
Nils Olav,
James White and The Blacks,
Royal Trux,
Yaz,
Basic Channel,
Anakelly,
The Fire Engines,
Deadbeat,
The Raincoats,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Minny Pops,
the Sonics,
the Human League,
Cheater Slicks,
Graham Central Station,
The Offenders,
Nick Fraelich,
LL Cool J,
Young Marble Giants,
DJ Sneak,
Loose Ends,
Boz Scaggs,
Matthew Halsall,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Country Teasers,
The Durutti Column,
The Wake,
Circle Jerks,
Gil Scott Heron,
Maurizio,
Harmonia,
Lower 48,
David Bowie,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Easy Going,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
A Certain Ratio,
Sugar Minott,
Gang Green,
David Axelrod,
Pere Ubu,
Traffic Nightmare,
Fluxion,
Sixth Finger,
Dawn Penn,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Smoke,
The Sonics,
Con Funk Shun,
Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet.
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.