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 Iran and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Shanghai.
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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Niagra to the dance 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 The Zeros. All the underground hits.
All Maleditus Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantaleimon 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Louis and Bebe Barron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fort Wilson Riot,
Television,
Aural Exciters,
Wings,
Mary Jane Girls,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Hot Snakes,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Delon & Dalcan,
Jacques Brel,
Bobby Sherman,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
James White and The Blacks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
New Age Steppers,
Public Image Ltd.,
DJ Sneak,
World's Most,
Max Romeo,
China Crisis,
Unrelated Segments,
Sixth Finger,
Joensuu 1685,
Blake Baxter,
Lou Reed,
Half Japanese,
Masters at Work,
E-Dancer,
Carl Craig,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Fire Engines,
Model 500,
Dave Gahan,
Tres Demented,
The Toasters,
the Sonics,
Avey Tare,
Gang Gang Dance,
Minutemen,
Nick Fraelich,
Skarface,
Amon Düül,
Simply Red,
Suburban Knight,
Sugar Minott,
Magazine,
8 Eyed Spy,
Yazoo,
Archie Shepp,
The New Christs,
Gang Green,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Idris Muhammad,
Cluster,
Fat Boys,
The Durutti Column,
Pantaleimon,
Sonic Youth,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn.
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.