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 Comoros and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Animal Collective. All the underground hits.
All The Smiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
the Human League,
the Swans,
The Modern Lovers,
Rites of Spring,
Leonard Cohen,
JFA,
Hoover,
Flash Fearless,
Fad Gadget,
The Slackers,
Black Pus,
The Searchers,
The Cure,
Ronnie Foster,
Loose Ends,
Neu!,
Angry Samoans,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Ash Ra Tempel,
June Days,
The Velvet Underground,
Accadde A,
Altered Images,
Bill Near,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Glenn Branca,
Lee Hazlewood,
Hasil Adkins,
Barry Ungar,
Wally Richardson,
Brass Construction,
Shoche,
John Holt,
Underground Resistance,
Bad Manners,
Radiohead,
Gregory Isaacs,
Radiopuhelimet,
Groovy Waters,
Davy DMX,
Cybotron,
Marine Girls,
Jacob Miller,
Glambeats Corp.,
Crispy Ambulance,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Erasure,
The Buckinghams,
the Fania All-Stars,
Reuben Wilson,
Bronski Beat,
Nik Kershaw,
Cameo,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Babytalk,
Royal Trux,
Subhumans,
China Crisis,
Animal Collective,
Thee Headcoats,
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear.
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.