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 Zambia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Kool Moe Dee to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Harry Pussy. All the underground hits.
All Flamin' Groovies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alison Limerick record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
DJ Sneak,
Icehouse,
The Buckinghams,
AZ,
MDC,
The Grass Roots,
Peter and Kerry,
The Raincoats,
Pere Ubu,
Bobby Womack,
Tropical Tobacco,
Roger Hodgson,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kaleidoscope,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Fat Boys,
Television Personalities,
Black Sheep,
Warren Ellis,
Blake Baxter,
Livin' Joy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rosa Yemen,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Amazonics,
The Kinks,
Graham Central Station,
Throbbing Gristle,
Essential Logic,
Guru Guru,
Liliput,
Hardrive,
The Flesh Eaters,
John Coltrane,
Wings,
PIL,
The Red Krayola,
Jacob Miller,
Average White Band,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Quantec,
Morten Harket,
the Fania All-Stars,
Alice Coltrane,
Technova,
Pulsallama,
Funkadelic,
Gang Starr,
JFA,
The Angels of Light,
Sonic Youth,
The Smoke,
Yazoo,
Ultravox,
Brand Nubian,
Sister Nancy,
Todd Terry,
Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange.
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.