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 Tunisia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 The Selecter to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Goldenarms. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Au Pairs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Guru Guru,
Pet Shop Boys,
Eric Copeland,
Rakim,
The Doors,
The Star Department,
Moby Grape,
Vladislav Delay,
Q and Not U,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Colin Newman,
Bobby Sherman,
8 Eyed Spy,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Y Pants,
B.T. Express,
Boredoms,
Youth Brigade,
The Kinks,
This Heat,
KRS-One,
The Vogues,
Nirvana,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Harry Pussy,
Cameo,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Isaac Hayes,
The Human League,
Fad Gadget,
Arcadia,
The Fortunes,
Gang Starr,
Soul Sonic Force,
DJ Sneak,
Dead Boys,
Skarface,
Soft Machine,
Lou Reed,
The Dead C,
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The Golliwogs,
Yazoo,
The Trojans,
Jeff Mills,
The Young Rascals,
Junior Murvin,
The Gun Club,
Delta 5,
Unrelated Segments,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Mojo Men,
Sun Ra,
The Knickerbockers,
The Sonics,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Wolf Eyes,
Los Fastidios,
Absolute Body Control,
Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy.
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.