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 Togo and from Tehran.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Animal Collective to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Easy Going record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Absolute Body Control record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Cluster,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Toasters,
8 Eyed Spy,
Ohio Players,
Groovy Waters,
Ultimate Spinach,
U.S. Maple,
Motorama,
the Swans,
Cal Tjader,
Brand Nubian,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Gichy Dan,
Electric Prunes,
New Age Steppers,
48th St. Collective,
The Busters,
Harpers Bizarre,
Blancmange,
Bizarre Inc.,
Slick Rick,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Jacques Brel,
Arcadia,
Lindisfarne,
Tubeway Army,
Interpol,
Mantronix,
Parry Music,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Harry Pussy,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Eddi Front,
The Gories,
Lyres,
Hasil Adkins,
The Victims,
Mark Hollis,
Moss Icon,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Hardrive,
Cecil Taylor,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Shuggie Otis,
L. Decosne,
Pierre Henry,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Boogie Down Productions,
Jesper Dahlback,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
EPMD,
ABC,
Soulsonic Force,
Can,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.