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 El Salvador and from Mexico City.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 organ 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the techno 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 Vainqueur. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Second Layer 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ohio Players record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crooked Eye,
Lakeside,
Cluster,
Barrington Levy,
Gregory Isaacs,
Scott Walker,
Harmonia,
Public Enemy,
Patti Smith,
Make Up,
Nick Fraelich,
Supertramp,
Steve Hackett,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Angels of Light,
Jacques Brel,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Traffic Nightmare,
Excepter,
Con Funk Shun,
Tears for Fears,
Funky Four + One,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Associates,
The Tremeloes,
Bizarre Inc.,
Faust,
Chris & Cosey,
The Cowsills,
Schoolly D,
DNA,
Rotary Connection,
Mission of Burma,
Angry Samoans,
a-ha,
Gang of Four,
The Flesh Eaters,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Wally Richardson,
Marmalade,
Brand Nubian,
Moebius,
Livin' Joy,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Litter,
the Bar-Kays,
Marc Almond,
Jeru the Damaja,
L. Decosne,
Stockholm Monsters,
Quantec,
Joe Finger,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Josef K,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Television Personalities,
The Divine Comedy,
Janne Schatter,
Fugazi,
Radiohead,
8 Eyed Spy,
Tommy Roe,
Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew.
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.