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 Montenegro and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 rhodes 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 DJ Style 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 The Remains. All the underground hits.
All EPMD tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oneida record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Outsiders,
Model 500,
The Neon Judgement,
Flash Fearless,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Shadows of Knight,
Soft Cell,
Chrome,
The Victims,
Ultra Naté,
Soul II Soul,
Isaac Hayes,
Sexual Harrassment,
Tim Buckley,
CMW,
Angry Samoans,
John Lydon,
Morten Harket,
Ken Boothe,
Fatback Band,
The Buckinghams,
Silicon Teens,
Cal Tjader,
Bobby Womack,
Young Marble Giants,
Todd Rundgren,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Harry Pussy,
Babytalk,
The Beau Brummels,
The Real Kids,
Technova,
Warsaw,
PIL,
Alphaville,
Stockholm Monsters,
Ornette Coleman,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Joy Division,
The Cure,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Toasters,
Supertramp,
The Martian,
Tubeway Army,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Nick Fraelich,
48th St. Collective,
Los Fastidios,
Zero Boys,
The Walker Brothers,
Black Flag,
the Fania All-Stars,
Y Pants,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Jacob Miller,
Moebius,
Joe Smooth,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.