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 Mauritius and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Delta 5 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 E-Dancer. All the underground hits.
All The Buckinghams tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fuzztones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fifty Foot Hose record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vainqueur,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bush Tetras,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kas Product,
Sparks,
Nirvana,
Mark Hollis,
Can,
Bronski Beat,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Dave Clark Five,
Aswad,
The Litter,
Marmalade,
Excepter,
Kurtis Blow,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Darondo,
Man Parrish,
Radiohead,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
A Flock of Seagulls,
X-102,
Dennis Brown,
Wings,
the Germs,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kerrie Biddell,
Basic Channel,
Lightning Bolt,
Half Japanese,
Lakeside,
Bob Dylan,
FM Einheit,
Fear,
AZ,
Tears for Fears,
Zapp,
Susan Cadogan,
Nick Fraelich,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Minnie Riperton,
Sonic Youth,
June Days,
The Red Krayola,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pulsallama,
David Axelrod,
the Association,
Flipper,
The Music Machine,
Crispian St. Peters,
Pole,
The Motions,
Archie Shepp,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Delta 5,
Jerry's Kids,
Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler.
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.