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 Israel and from Mumbai.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Kool Moe Dee to the dance 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 Goldenarms. All the underground hits.
All The Kinks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donald Byrd record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kango’s Stein Massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
Flamin' Groovies,
Con Funk Shun,
Joy Division,
Kerri Chandler,
The Raincoats,
Lalo Schifrin,
Black Sheep,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Boogie Down Productions,
Nas,
Freddie Wadling,
Warsaw,
Jeru the Damaja,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Porter Ricks,
Stetsasonic,
The Young Rascals,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Essential Logic,
The Cowsills,
Skaos,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Five Americans,
Radio Birdman,
Graham Central Station,
Lee Hazlewood,
Jacques Brel,
Vladislav Delay,
Delta 5,
Youth Brigade,
Metal Thangz,
The Techniques,
R.M.O.,
Tears for Fears,
New Age Steppers,
Technova,
Kayak,
Robert Görl,
Anakelly,
Andrew Hill,
OOIOO,
Todd Terry,
Soulsonic Force,
Lightning Bolt,
a-ha,
Can,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Black Moon,
The Cure,
Moss Icon,
Qualms,
Dual Sessions,
Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D.
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.