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 Iraq and from Accra.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Siglo XX to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All Jawbox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wings record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 clarinet and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Teasers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glenn Branca,
Cheater Slicks,
Johnny Clarke,
Au Pairs,
The Shadows of Knight,
KRS-One,
Jesper Dahlback,
Stetsasonic,
Alton Ellis,
Gichy Dan,
Leonard Cohen,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Joensuu 1685,
The Doors,
The Gladiators,
Connie Case,
Faust,
Depeche Mode,
Moss Icon,
Public Enemy,
Frankie Knuckles,
Underground Resistance,
the Human League,
Half Japanese,
Dennis Brown,
Absolute Body Control,
The Kinks,
U.S. Maple,
Fugazi,
The Gun Club,
Little Man,
Essential Logic,
Sparks,
The Fortunes,
Black Sheep,
Liliput,
The Monochrome Set,
Procol Harum,
Neil Young,
Scan 7,
Section 25,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Lightning Bolt,
Panda Bear,
The Mojo Men,
Isaac Hayes,
PIL,
Amon Düül II,
Howard Jones,
The Last Poets,
Rod Modell,
Kayak,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Victims,
Outsiders,
The Real Kids,
Bootsy Collins,
Stereo Dub,
Tropical Tobacco,
Wally Richardson,
Idris Muhammad,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Star Department,
It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day.
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.