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 India and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Panda Bear to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 La Düsseldorf. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jesper Dahlbäck record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kaleidoscope record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Bill Wells,
Grey Daturas,
Japan,
The Blackbyrds,
Joy Division,
The J.B.'s,
Banda Bassotti,
Avey Tare,
The Barracudas,
China Crisis,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Smiths,
Negative Approach,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Tremeloes,
Silicon Teens,
Amazonics,
R.M.O.,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Metal Thangz,
MC5,
the Sonics,
Mo-Dettes,
The Fall,
The Invisible,
Jimmy McGriff,
Adolescents,
The Dead C,
Crispian St. Peters,
Warren Ellis,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Roy Ayers,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
the Normal,
In Retrospect,
The Monochrome Set,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Alice Coltrane,
Judy Mowatt,
Lou Reed,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Boz Scaggs,
Pere Ubu,
Urselle,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Stetsasonic,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pulsallama,
Black Flag,
Visage,
Neil Young,
ABC,
Reagan Youth,
Lalann,
Television Personalities,
F. McDonald,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pylon,
Brass Construction,
Harry Pussy,
Interpol,
This Heat, This Heat, This Heat, This Heat.
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.