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 Burkina and from Cairo.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Panda Bear to the techno 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 Rhythm & Sound. All the underground hits.
All Moby Grape tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Japan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ituana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The J.B.'s,
Pantytec,
Eden Ahbez,
Sound Behaviour,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Girls At Our Best!,
Wolf Eyes,
Wasted Youth,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Move,
Outsiders,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Delon & Dalcan,
Gastr Del Sol,
Black Bananas,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Scratch Acid,
Niagra,
Index,
The Slackers,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Black Sheep,
Pet Shop Boys,
Fear,
H. Thieme,
Hardrive,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Pierre Henry,
Piero Umiliani,
Camberwell Now,
Soul II Soul,
Blancmange,
Au Pairs,
Cameo,
Easy Going,
Sexual Harrassment,
Joyce Sims,
Nick Fraelich,
Panda Bear,
Lee Hazlewood,
Ludus,
The Stooges,
Skarface,
Avey Tare,
Half Japanese,
The Star Department,
Underground Resistance,
Schoolly D,
Kerri Chandler,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Count Five,
the Germs,
Prince Buster,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Martian,
The Techniques,
David McCallum,
Thee Headcoats,
Isaac Hayes,
Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe.
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.