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 Norway and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 UT to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Isaac Hayes. All the underground hits.
All The Shadows of Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lindisfarne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Martian,
The New Christs,
China Crisis,
Glambeats Corp.,
Josef K,
Robert Görl,
Idris Muhammad,
Nick Fraelich,
Danielle Patucci,
Hoover,
Hashim,
the Swans,
MC5,
Smog,
Alison Limerick,
The Dead C,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Monolake,
The Detroit Cobras,
Jeff Lynne,
Mars,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Saints,
The Velvet Underground,
Boz Scaggs,
Mr. Review,
The Modern Lovers,
The Black Dice,
The Trojans,
World's Most,
Motorama,
Pole,
Marmalade,
Vainqueur,
Sarah Menescal,
Ronnie Foster,
Audionom,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Busters,
David Axelrod,
Judy Mowatt,
Girls At Our Best!,
a-ha,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Gastr Del Sol,
Joey Negro,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Pierre Henry,
Yusef Lateef,
Ossler,
Ituana,
The Move,
Sixth Finger,
Desert Stars,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Zero Boys,
The Fortunes,
Ornette Coleman,
Jesper Dahlback,
Curtis Mayfield,
The J.B.'s,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.