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 Ethiopia and from Lagos.
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 Edmonton and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 R.M.O. to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Skaos. All the underground hits.
All Sound Behaviour tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bill Wells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Animal Collective,
Fluxion,
The Golliwogs,
Radiopuhelimet,
the Fania All-Stars,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Moleskins,
Alphaville,
Q and Not U,
The Beau Brummels,
These Immortal Souls,
MDC,
Alison Limerick,
Swell Maps,
Crash Course in Science,
Royal Trux,
Crime,
Agitation Free,
The Techniques,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Davy DMX,
Traffic Nightmare,
Ohio Players,
Adolescents,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Walker Brothers,
E-Dancer,
Johnny Clarke,
Josef K,
Ponytail,
Nik Kershaw,
Surgeon,
Skaos,
The Sonics,
Accadde A,
Siglo XX,
Pet Shop Boys,
Gichy Dan,
Arcadia,
Bluetip,
the Swans,
Black Moon,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Michelle Simonal,
kango's stein massive,
Radio Birdman,
Rotary Connection,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ultimate Spinach,
Mantronix,
Prince Buster,
Qualms,
Moss Icon,
Thompson Twins,
Moby Grape,
Ronnie Foster,
The Trojans,
Zapp,
Quantec,
The Cowsills,
Yusef Lateef,
The Gun Club, The Gun Club, The Gun Club, The Gun Club.
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.