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 Estonia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 kango's stein massive to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan. All the underground hits.
All Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Angels of Light record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jacques Brel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Japan,
the Sonics,
Roxette,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
David Axelrod,
Scientists,
Blancmange,
DJ Sneak,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Erasure,
Lower 48,
Half Japanese,
Stetsasonic,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Bronski Beat,
Davy DMX,
Smog,
FM Einheit,
The Blackbyrds,
The Wake,
Magazine,
Ituana,
T. Rex,
Funky Four + One,
Nas,
Big Daddy Kane,
Ten City,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Golliwogs,
Gong,
Aswad,
Sister Nancy,
Barrington Levy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Motions,
Guru Guru,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pantaleimon,
Nirvana,
The Misunderstood,
Traffic Nightmare,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Skaos,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Little Man,
Unrelated Segments,
Althea and Donna,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Agitation Free,
Henry Cow,
Easy Going,
Colin Newman,
Fear,
Franke,
Toni Rubio,
Minor Threat,
Danielle Patucci,
The Velvet Underground,
The Moleskins,
Subhumans,
Delta 5,
Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars.
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.