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 Spain and from Sao Paulo.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 This Heat to the grunge 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 Fatback Band. All the underground hits.
All Minutemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Simply Red record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Doobie Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultra Naté,
Idris Muhammad,
Chris & Cosey,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Eli Mardock,
Swell Maps,
Donny Hathaway,
Yaz,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Sonics,
Harmonia,
Wire,
Sister Nancy,
Aural Exciters,
Nik Kershaw,
Isaac Hayes,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Prince Buster,
The Index,
John Holt,
T.S.O.L.,
Make Up,
Amon Düül II,
David McCallum,
Al Stewart,
Crispy Ambulance,
Sound Behaviour,
The Gap Band,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Divine Comedy,
Saccharine Trust,
Rod Modell,
X-101,
Animal Collective,
The Invisible,
Joy Division,
The Knickerbockers,
Joensuu 1685,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Velvet Underground,
The Young Rascals,
Arthur Verocai,
Hot Snakes,
Lakeside,
Dead Boys,
Gang Green,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Country Teasers,
Letta Mbulu,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Mission of Burma,
Brand Nubian,
Eric Dolphy,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Blackbyrds,
Urselle,
Ludus,
Ten City,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Brick,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Cameo,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.