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 Greece and from Bologna.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and London.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the snare 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 Deakin to the rap 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 The Kinks. All the underground hits.
All Talk Talk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Susan Cadogan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fat Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
E-Dancer,
Swans,
Delon & Dalcan,
Thompson Twins,
The Neon Judgement,
Essential Logic,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
DJ Sneak,
Amon Düül II,
David Axelrod,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Make Up,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Joe Smooth,
The Busters,
Camouflage,
Anthony Braxton,
Rotary Connection,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Spoonie Gee,
Trumans Water,
Moebius,
Q and Not U,
Brick,
Bush Tetras,
Smog,
Talk Talk,
Organ,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Wasted Youth,
Graham Central Station,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ludus,
Faraquet,
Yellowson,
Max Romeo,
Al Stewart,
The Gories,
Gang Starr,
Subhumans,
The Count Five,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Buzzcocks,
Stockholm Monsters,
Radiohead,
Oneida,
The Moleskins,
The Velvet Underground,
Gabor Szabo,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Brass Construction,
Y Pants,
The Happenings,
Tom Boy,
OOIOO,
Juan Atkins,
Bobby Sherman,
D'Angelo,
Metal Thangz,
Scion, Scion, Scion, Scion.
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.