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 Latvia and from Tokyo.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Todd Terry to the disco 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 Rod Modell. All the underground hits.
All Marine Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Half Japanese 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Underground Resistance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Iggy Pop,
Japan,
Ornette Coleman,
Hashim,
Alice Coltrane,
This Heat,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Remains,
Neil Young,
Scientists,
Silicon Teens,
L. Decosne,
Q and Not U,
The Walker Brothers,
ABC,
Youth Brigade,
Brick,
Gang Gang Dance,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Piero Umiliani,
The Moody Blues,
Siglo XX,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Yazoo,
Livin' Joy,
The Moleskins,
Banda Bassotti,
Adolescents,
Procol Harum,
Cameo,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Cybotron,
The Litter,
Alison Limerick,
Reagan Youth,
Monolake,
Tears for Fears,
Agent Orange,
Mission of Burma,
Royal Trux,
Mad Mike,
OOIOO,
Sixth Finger,
The Knickerbockers,
Boz Scaggs,
Scan 7,
Kerrie Biddell,
Pagans,
The Saints,
Rosa Yemen,
Peter & Gordon,
Nik Kershaw,
Connie Case,
Heaven 17,
Wolf Eyes,
Schoolly D,
Zero Boys,
Dark Day,
New Order,
The Associates,
Arcadia,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis.
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.