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 Chile 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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 June Days to the grunge 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 Bang on a Can All-Stars. All the underground hits.
All Michelle Simonal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Golliwogs 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a This Heat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skaos,
10cc,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Slick Rick,
Country Teasers,
Groovy Waters,
Brass Construction,
John Foxx,
Outsiders,
Massinfluence,
Fad Gadget,
Black Flag,
Junior Murvin,
Youth Brigade,
Aloha Tigers,
Joensuu 1685,
Technova,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Con Funk Shun,
Pere Ubu,
Juan Atkins,
Essential Logic,
Von Mondo,
Interpol,
Parry Music,
Glambeats Corp.,
Agent Orange,
Gang Gang Dance,
Flamin' Groovies,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Searchers,
Ice-T,
The Seeds,
The Divine Comedy,
Kayak,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Marine Girls,
Throbbing Gristle,
Black Bananas,
Unrelated Segments,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Monolake,
a-ha,
Roxy Music,
Kas Product,
La Düsseldorf,
Eden Ahbez,
Bauhaus,
The Martian,
Tim Buckley,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Nick Fraelich,
Patti Smith,
Radiopuhelimet,
Charles Mingus,
Stetsasonic,
Man Eating Sloth,
June of 44,
Gang Green,
Mantronix,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Pretty Things,
Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts.
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.