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 Bangladesh 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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Star Department to the funk 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 Reuben Wilson. All the underground hits.
All KRS-One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every De La Soul & Jungle Brothers 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 a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Godley & Creme,
kango's stein massive,
Urselle,
Iggy Pop,
The Pop Group,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bobby Womack,
Grandmaster Flash,
John Cale,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Swell Maps,
Hoover,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
X-102,
A Certain Ratio,
Joe Smooth,
The Cure,
The Zeros,
Mo-Dettes,
Average White Band,
Rakim,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Moss Icon,
Sam Rivers,
Circle Jerks,
The Offenders,
Donald Byrd,
Neil Young,
Little Man,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
New Age Steppers,
Barry Ungar,
Inner City,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Make Up,
Piero Umiliani,
Rapeman,
Steve Hackett,
Yazoo,
Lower 48,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Stiv Bators,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Heaven 17,
Fela Kuti,
The Names,
China Crisis,
Adolescents,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
UT,
Howard Jones,
The Flesh Eaters,
Bush Tetras,
The Dave Clark Five,
Junior Murvin,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Procol Harum,
Erasure,
Alice Coltrane,
Soft Cell, Soft Cell, Soft Cell, Soft Cell.
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.