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 Mozambique and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Joensuu 1685 to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Groovy Waters. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rakim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ohio Players,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Black Pus,
Robert Görl,
The Young Rascals,
The Stooges,
Chrome,
The Flesh Eaters,
Faraquet,
Von Mondo,
the Germs,
Desert Stars,
Nirvana,
Lakeside,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bad Manners,
cv313,
Glambeats Corp.,
Fatback Band,
Mantronix,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Cure,
MDC,
Agent Orange,
Reuben Wilson,
X-102,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Metal Thangz,
The Dave Clark Five,
Dennis Brown,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Grey Daturas,
The Neon Judgement,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Newcleus,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Doors,
Smog,
Wally Richardson,
KRS-One,
Moss Icon,
Chris & Cosey,
Johnny Clarke,
Gong,
Dawn Penn,
Country Teasers,
Man Parrish,
Nik Kershaw,
Lou Reed,
Crooked Eye,
Crash Course in Science,
The Kinks,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Max Romeo,
The Angels of Light,
MC5,
The Move,
Bronski Beat,
Main Source,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.