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 Uzbekistan and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Bush Tetras to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Goldenarms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Main Source record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gastr Del Sol,
Talk Talk,
The Victims,
Anakelly,
Nation of Ulysses,
Minnie Riperton,
Marine Girls,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Little Man,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Roy Ayers,
The Stooges,
Patti Smith,
the Fania All-Stars,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
A Certain Ratio,
The Standells,
Mandrill,
Bootsy Collins,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
La Düsseldorf,
Wire,
Erykah Badu,
Amon Düül II,
Scrapy,
Interpol,
Half Japanese,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Gap Band,
Harmonia,
Jesper Dahlback,
Moss Icon,
Spoonie Gee,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Leaves,
Kurtis Blow,
The Red Krayola,
The Human League,
The Selecter,
Mr. Review,
The Black Dice,
The Velvet Underground,
the Bar-Kays,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Nils Olav,
Tropical Tobacco,
Marvin Gaye,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Steve Hackett,
Janne Schatter,
the Normal,
Drexciya,
Charles Mingus,
Schoolly D,
Slave,
Accadde A,
Barbara Tucker,
Iggy Pop,
Sister Nancy,
UT,
Blossom Toes, Blossom Toes, Blossom Toes, Blossom Toes.
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.