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 Cambodia and from Bremen.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 arpeggiator 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 Malaria! to the techno 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 Archie Shepp. All the underground hits.
All John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tears for Fears record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Girls At Our Best! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Country Teasers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Scientists,
Suburban Knight,
Thompson Twins,
Zapp,
The Star Department,
Reuben Wilson,
New Age Steppers,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Techniques,
Dark Day,
Absolute Body Control,
Silicon Teens,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Tres Demented,
Con Funk Shun,
Susan Cadogan,
The Seeds,
Wings,
The Happenings,
Barry Ungar,
Nico,
The Blues Magoos,
Joyce Sims,
Hardrive,
Charles Mingus,
Archie Shepp,
Unrelated Segments,
Anakelly,
Harmonia,
Severed Heads,
The Associates,
Quando Quango,
Bob Dylan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nas,
The Doors,
Public Enemy,
The Fortunes,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Piero Umiliani,
Urselle,
Lightning Bolt,
Bush Tetras,
The Doobie Brothers,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Pantaleimon,
Lou Reed,
Sonic Youth,
The Trojans,
Rakim,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Wasted Youth,
Y Pants,
LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J.
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.