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 Bhutan and from Sao Paulo.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 oboe 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 Rotary Connection to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 This Heat. All the underground hits.
All The Star Department tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anthony Braxton record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Throbbing Gristle record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb 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,
Janne Schatter,
Lower 48,
Neil Young,
The Barracudas,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Suicide,
48th St. Collective,
The Gun Club,
Girls At Our Best!,
Mo-Dettes,
a-ha,
The Grass Roots,
The Birthday Party,
Archie Shepp,
Agent Orange,
Sonic Youth,
Black Moon,
Hasil Adkins,
Flash Fearless,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Desert Stars,
Black Bananas,
Public Enemy,
Joensuu 1685,
Drive Like Jehu,
Funkadelic,
Eve St. Jones,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Doors,
Dorothy Ashby,
Yusef Lateef,
Rosa Yemen,
Cluster,
Mr. Review,
Soul Sonic Force,
Chris Corsano,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Don Cherry,
Monolake,
DJ Style,
The Star Department,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Invisible,
Soul II Soul,
Boredoms,
Simply Red,
Bad Manners,
Blossom Toes,
David Axelrod,
MDC,
Idris Muhammad,
Popol Vuh,
Tommy Roe,
Laurel Aitken,
the Human League,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Thompson Twins,
Inner City,
Magma,
R.M.O.,
The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds.
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.